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Technology Transfer and Development Economics

Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Today I Learned

About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

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Trump Accounts are a Big Deal

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant

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Amazon’s Robotic Revolution

Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages

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*Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future*

By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page.  Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:

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Flying on Frying Oil

The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers

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Progressives Declare Victory Over Neoliberalism After NYC Primary

The cynical, sclerotic centrist establishment of the American Democratic Party took a huge L in Tuesday’s Mayoral Primary in New

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Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)

The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,

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Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons

Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against

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Some northern parts of Spain

Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not.  Many of the faces are more Celtic,