Does Costco Cause Cancer? – Marginal REVOLUTION
In December 2025, researchers led by Yazan Alwadi at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a paper in Environmental Health that claimed to find that cancer incidence increased…
In December 2025, researchers led by Yazan Alwadi at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a paper in Environmental Health that claimed to find that cancer incidence increased…
Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility. Limited exposure may partly explain these low intergroup marriage rates. We…
The Japanese elderly, to be clear: Population aging and shortages of long-term care workers have increased interest in care-giving robots and information and communication technology (ICT). This paper provides novel…
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1. Rewarding failure? 2. An excellent Brian Potter explainer on how matrix algebra is used in both LLMs and robotics. 3. Chat with Mircea Cărtărescu. 4. It seems the expansion…
In the past year American markets have digested the largest-ever initial public offering (SpaceX), equity raise by a public company (Google) or a foreign firm (SK Hynix), private-funding round (OpenAI)…
In this issue: “China shock” fragility: According to David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson (2013), the “China shock” hit the United States from 1990 to 2007. When corrections by Kirill…
For taxes too: Using administrative data from Scandinavian countries, we provide evidence on international migration responses to wealth taxes and evaluate their aggregate economic implications. We find significant migration responses…
1. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film…
Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor wrote AI as Normal Technology The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things: a description of current AI, a prediction about the…