The Queen song ’39 – Marginal REVOLUTION
I only recently learned what it is really about, namely very rapid travel into space and time dilation mattering for the return voyage. I had never before listened carefully to…
I only recently learned what it is really about, namely very rapid travel into space and time dilation mattering for the return voyage. I had never before listened carefully to…
An interesting paper from French economists, including recent Nobelist Philippe Aghion, looks at the savings from a predictive machine-learning model applied to wastewater treatment: This paper studies the environmental effects…
1. “Next to rising oxygen levels and other contributing factors, the importance of feces in ancient ecosystems is often overlooked…” 2. New publication on AI and institutions. Good people involved.…
I was on the British CapX Podcast talking about the Equality Act, riffing off my two posts Equality Act 2010 and The Apples and Oranges Tribunal. One thing I discussed…
If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the tax deductibility of union dues in Norway as…
In addition to his well-known public roles, he worked very hard to help and befriend me when I was younger. Here are the Google searches for Victor. Less well known…
Infinite numbers have long troubled utilitarian ethicists: if the universe is boundless, then there is infinite positive utility and infinite negative utility, and we can’t even define our current state, let alone…
The author is Tim Whitmarsh and the subtitle is Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. This is the most important book on the history of Christianity I have read…
In Museo San Marco there is an ancillary exhibit, placing some smaller, lighter colored Rothkos next to their Fra Angelico frescoes. Those rooms bowled me over, as for one thing…
Total fertility rates in East Asia have fallen to levels without historical precedent, even though the region’s Confucian heritage long placed extraordinary emphasis on family continuity and large families. We…