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By Coleman Hughes, coming soon ! The post *The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America* appeared first on Marginal REVOL...

From Vidya Mahambare : Several countries have grappled with a longstanding dilemma – how to reverse the trend of falling fertility rates. ...

1. Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World: How We Can be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet .  An excellent book with soun...

OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona State University wil...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column .  Here is the first part of the argument: Two kinds of AI-driven education are likely to ...

There is a new paper on this topic, with what seems to be very good data: This paper examines the relationship between downward nominal wa...

By a lot.  I was briefly on the island, and also visited Próspera  there (I thank my hosts for their time and efforts, and I believe Vitalia...

This page contains example prompts and responses intended to showcase how  g enerative AI , namely  LLMs  like  GPT-4 , can benefit economi...

The country was not quite as rich in the early days as it is sometimes made out to be: Argentina’s performance on this measure is frequent...

But a hundred years ago, birds were seen as the best remedy for the weeds and insect pests that threatened the country’s food supply and co...

We assess statistical power and excess statistical significance among 31 leading economics general interest and field journals using 22,281...

Clayton Haight , Waterloo, robotics and accelerating progress in hardware. Hemanth Surya Ganesh , freshman at Dickinson College, also India...

With Niklas Anzinger of Próspera , partly about GOAT, partly about SEZs and charter cities. The post Stranded Technologies podcast appeare...

The negative AD shift comes from the Fed’s extreme tightening plus the phasing out of fiscal stimulus.  That might hurt housing markets the ...

In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid — many of them for solar energy generation and storag...

These are illustrative numbers, not definitive estimates: Let’s make some base-case assumptions. The most important assumptions are: A ...

And at what margin? A new ideological struggle is brewing, yet we have not yet recognized it as such.  The question is to what extent citie...

By Andras Ek, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy : This paper estimates differences in human capital as country-of-origin-spe...

1. Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create .  Could...

Yes says I, and here is Wikipedia for reference .  Adam Ozimek (from my email) agrees: Rewatching Oblivion tonight and it really holds up....