ECONOMY

Technology Transfer and Development Economics
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 13, 2025
Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Today I Learned
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- . July 10, 2025
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Trump Accounts are a Big Deal
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 7, 2025
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant

Amazon’s Robotic Revolution
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 4, 2025
Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages

*Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future*
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 1, 2025
By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page. Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:

Flying on Frying Oil
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- . June 28, 2025
The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers

Progressives Declare Victory Over Neoliberalism After NYC Primary
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- . June 25, 2025
The cynical, sclerotic centrist establishment of the American Democratic Party took a huge L in Tuesday’s Mayoral Primary in New

Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . June 22, 2025
The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,

Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . June 19, 2025
Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against

Some northern parts of Spain
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . June 16, 2025
Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not. Many of the faces are more Celtic,