What They Took From You
Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the police. He could live where…
Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the police. He could live where…
I am on my way back home from Armenia, where I was on a Fulbright teaching U.S. securities regulation to Armenian law students. I’m an active user of AI for…
This paper argues that globalisation’s frontier has shifted from manufacturing GVCs to services GVCs: from the Global Factory to the Global Office. While the Factory remains larger in gross trade,…
Romantic interest on swipe-based dating apps (SBDAs) is highly concentrated. This can frustrate both popular users who feel overwhelmed by a glut of attention, and less popular users who feel…
1. Economics job market site. 2. Data on the flattening of consumer culture (NYT). One-sided, but still of interest. 3. A new and better measure of how much of educational…
India’s Outlook Business has an excellent issue focusing on pollution not just as a people killer but as a growth killer (as I have emphasized pollution reduces wealth and health,…
For a while now, we have been hearing claims that social media radicalize the American electorate, and that social media damage teen mental health. Well, we just held a major…
Here is the video, audio, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: The first half of the conversation stays close to the text [Conrad’s Nostromo], covering the novel’s…
There has been widespread concern about self-censorship on university campuses, and especially that conservative voices are being stifled. Using survey data from a private elite college, we show that self-censorship…
1. Important people in the AI world. 2. Ted Nordhaus on Bill Nordhaus. 3. “That universities facilitate broader political mobilization can explain why governments often seek to restrict student activism.”…