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The Licensing Racket

I review a very good new book on occupational licensing, The Licensing Racket by Rebecca Haw Allensworth in the WSJ.

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Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy

Are we in a trade war today? Who knows? Doesn’t really matter. It’s always a good time to review important

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Rob Urie: To End Oligarchy, End Finance Capitalism

Yves here. While I appreciate the purity of Rob Urie’s argument, the prevalence of financiers as oligarchs depends on whether

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FDA Deregulation of E-Cigarettes Saved Lives and Spurred Innovation

What would happen to drug development if the FDA lost its authority to prohibit new drugs? Would research and development

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It’s Time to Build the Peptidome!

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem. Peptides, short sequences of amino acids, are nature’s first defense against bacteria. Research on

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AI Improves Student Learning and Engagement

In our paper on online education, Tyler and I wrote: One model of a future course is a super-textbook: lectures,

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Links 1/23/2025 | naked capitalism

“Supergiant” sea bug named after Darth Vader found in South China Sea CBS Do Insects Feel Pain? The New Yorker

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I talk with Michael Klein

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

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*Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life*

That is the new Agnes Callard book, very good, self-recommending. I would say my views on some of these issues

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Canada’s missing entrepreneurs

From John Ruffalo. The post Canada’s missing entrepreneurs appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link