Monday assorted links
1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional productivity differences (and puzzles)…
1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional productivity differences (and puzzles)…
From the Archive–these posts are written by AI. Cowen’s strongest recommendations include 1491, The Power Broker, Knausgaard’s first two My Struggle volumes, Fuchsia Dunlop’s Chinese cookbooks, and Meetings with Remarkable…
The Marginal Revolution archive is now live at https://marginalrevolution.com/ai-archive/. You can also find it from the “Download Full Archive” link in the left menu. The purpose of the archive is…
It would take true Milei-like ardour to slice through Brazil’s economic troubles. These are caused by a gnarly mix of high public spending, stubborn inflation and low saving. The result is…
More likely than interference with the election is that unsuccessful office-seekers will refuse to concede, claiming their opponents cheated. Nothing is more basic to democratic legitimacy than the loser’s consent.…
1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the…
The Panic Patrol, a division of the department of future corrections, reminds us of past panics. Here’s one case in point I wasn’t aware of: The post The Panic Patrol…
We produce a numerical estimate of the value of unpaid breastfeeding relative to national income spanning five centuries and integrating historical and bioarchaeological data. The relative economic contribution of maternal…
How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal…
Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is…