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The Great Forgetting, a continuing series

On Thursday, the Center for American Progress, a prominent left-leaning think tank that often cultivates policy ideas later adopted by

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India’s AI wedding buffet – Marginal REVOLUTION

Shruti Rajagopalan surveys much of the AI policy debate in India.  Excerpt: If there is a single domain where India’s

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Minimum wage hikes and robots

This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure

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Effective tax rates for billionaires

Here is the tweet, here is the source data. The post Effective tax rates for billionaires appeared first on Marginal

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Trump’s Mask of Unreality Slipping In the Face of the Epstein Files

The mask of unreality worn by the powers that be is slipping as the narrative wars escalate and collide with

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Coffee Break: Never Underestimate What People Can Do As Members of Community

Part the First: Whalers in Brazil 5,000 Years Ago.  Whaling rightly has become anathema in this modern world, except in

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*You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition*

By Bryan Caplan, now on sale.  From Bryan’s Substack: My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture:

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History of Econ Summer Camp

Graduate students with an interest in the history of economic thought should consider this summer program.  Source link

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Fear of larger wars in East Africa

This is one of my major worries for 2026 and beyond.  The ethnic and tribal conflict in Ethiopia is not

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The share of factor income paid to computers

Via Kevin Bryan. The post The share of factor income paid to computers appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link