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
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.
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
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
*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:
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
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
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,
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
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,