Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven?
I am not myself religious, but let us consider the possible gulf between behavior and doctrine amongst those who are. It has long struck me as a kind of mini-puzzle…
I am not myself religious, but let us consider the possible gulf between behavior and doctrine amongst those who are. It has long struck me as a kind of mini-puzzle…
The organ procurement system has long been a miasma of inefficient monopoly providers. In 2024 I quoted some shocking facts from a great Statecraft interview with Jennifer Erickson and Greg…
1. Dwarkesh interviews Robert Caro (!). 2. New and pretty brutal results on CTE and football. 3. Interview with Dan Wang. 4. Updated version of the Saez-Zucman audit. Contestable and…
The average price of health insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces will rise by 13 percent next year, according to an analysis on Friday by KFF, the health research group. The…
Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endogenous responses. This paper provides empirical evidence of…
1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle). It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The…
This paper shows retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime. We match store-level crime data to scanner data from the universe of transactions for cannabis retailers in Washington…
What are the worst MR posts, most illogical, poorly reasoned, low value, inconsistent? From the Archives, written by ChatGPT: These are provisional candidates for weak reasoning, selected because there is…
Wednesday, November 4, 18:30 Barcelona time, details here. I am honored to have won the Elinor Ostrom Prize from the Institut Ostrom Catalunya. Maybe see you there! The post My…
1. Organizing Intelligence. 2. World Bank African urbanization report. Building out African cities in a decent way could end up being the task of our coming era. 3. Summary of…