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
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
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
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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“Supergiant” sea bug named after Darth Vader found in South China Sea CBS Do Insects Feel Pain? The New Yorker
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
*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
Canada’s missing entrepreneurs
From John Ruffalo. The post Canada’s missing entrepreneurs appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link
Congestion Tolls versus Congestion Pricing
New York’s new congestion fee appears to be reducing commuting times on key routes (see Tyler and this thread from
China’s Government Bond Market Sounding Loud Deflationary Alarm. Is the Japanification China Has Warded Off Finally Arriving?
Western economists and financiers have so regularly predicted a crash or zombification outcome to China’s spectacular run of growth that