Marginal Revolution
Monday assorted links
Privatizing Law Enforcement: The Economics of Whistleblowing
Why did the colonists hate taxes so much?
The evolution of Albanian AI governance
What should I ask Dan Wang?
Sunday assorted links
*The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny*, now finished
Are new data centers boosting electricity prices?
What should I ask Andrew Ross Sorkin?
Saturday assorted links
Are the ACA exchanges unraveling?
Should we worry about AI’s circular deals?
Emergent Ventures India, 11th cohort
Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain?
Friday assorted links
Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate
Some further new negative results on minimum wage hikes
The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers
When will quantum computing work?
Thursday assorted links
Red Rooms, a 2023 Quebecois movie
What I’ve been reading
*Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic*
Wednesday assorted links
Ads as cues
Podcast with Filippo Gaddo
Will there be a Coasean singularity?
Tuesday assorted links
Harvard graduate admissions
The MR Podcast: Our Favorite Models, Session 2: The Baumol Effect
Words of wisdom
How the pandemic has changed the world
Monday assorted links
The median voter model, or the Becker pressure group model?
Creative Destruction in a Nutshell
What should I ask Diarmaid MacCulloch
*Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent*
Sunday assorted links
*The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny*, by Kiran Desai
My choral music podcast with Rick Rubin
Understanding and Addressing Temperature Impacts on Mortality
Saturday assorted links
Rare Earths Aren’t Rare
Some simple economics of AI and macro cycles
The Economic Geography of American Slavery
Friday assorted links
Predicting Job Loss?
Those new service sector jobs
My excellent Conversation with George Selgin
Thursday assorted links
Rick Rubin podcasts with me
John Nye on Joel Mokyr (from my email)
AI and the First Amendment
Interview with Robinson Erhardt of Stanford
What matters for central banks?
Wednesday assorted links
Democracy and Capitalism are Mutually Reinforcing
Tanmay Khale on the decline in iconic songs over time (from my email)
D’Angelo, RIP
Tuesday assorted links
We Turned the Light On—and the AI Looked Back
China fact of the day
French facts of the day
Monday assorted links
What should I ask Blake Scholl?
Sunday assorted links
How Immigration is Changing the Black-White Earnings Gap
New archaeology tranche for Emergent Ventures
What matters for central banks?
What should I ask Brendan Foody?
China understands negative emotional contagion
Ian Smith’s memoir *Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal*
Friday assorted links
Lookism sentences to ponder
Claims about education and convergence
More on Trumpian equity stakes
Thursday assorted links
From the Forecasting Research Institute
Hanson and Buterin for Nobel Prize in Economics
Is the earned income tax overrated?
Claims about polygyny
Andrew wants new Singapore recommendations
Wednesday assorted links
Where has beauty gone in the modern world?
Share repurchases do not discourage investment
Black Veterans and Civil Rights After World War I
Tuesday assorted links
Singapore fact of the day
MR Podcast: Our Favorite Models, Session 1
Who exactly is rigid again?
Emergent Ventures winners, 47th cohort
Monday assorted links
The Free Press is joining Paramount
Sentences to ponder
Helen Andrews on the feminization of culture
The unraveling of Obamacare?
Sunday assorted links
Virginia fact of the day
The ai Boom
Thiel and Wolfe on the Antichrist in literature
Saturday assorted links
AI Scientists in the Lab
New data on social media
Türkiye’s Homemade Crises
Do LLMs favor outputs created by themselves?
Friday assorted links
Valuing free goods
What I’ve been reading
On politics and gender
Thursday assorted links
Uri Bram on throwing a good party
My excellent Conversation with John Amaechi
Some simple economics of Sora 2?
Wednesday assorted links
Higher education is not that easy