Tuesday, May 30, 2023

US and Singapore know how to grow

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 From Jon Hartley's tribute to Bob Lucas in NATIONAL REVIEW : In the 1980s, Lucas stopped doing work on business cycles (the subject tha...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

How will AI change Education and Computer Science?

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Bryan Caplan as an answer: What will change for students is workload and evaluation. Professors are used to assigning homework, papers...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Is vasectomy a substitute for abortion?

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  When the "price" (difficulty) of getting an abortion rose, demand for vasectomies increased.  The Economist
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Fix the incentives and everything else will follow

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John Cochrane's 12 minute talk
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Monday, May 15, 2023

Pillow Price Discrimination

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Hone your BS antennae to detect confirmation bias

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ChatGPT makes what Steven Pinker calls "motivated reasoning" (e.g., confirmation bias) really easy.  In what follows, pay attenti...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Why intellectual diversity is declining in universities

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 NY Times: Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors But if you told an academic who feared cancellation — a young sociologist, l...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

Economist Magazine's Crony index

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  Rent-seeking is common in sectors close to the state, including banking, construction, property and natural resources. It can sometimes ...
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Quote of the day

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... a free market society is a giant game in which you win by making other people better off. by libertarian philosopher, David Schmidtz, ...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Where has US housing supply grown?

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Housing supply increased in low density suburbs ("Sub low"), like Nashville, but not much in in high-density suburbs ("Sub hi...
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