Alex Tabarrok
@ATabarrok
Prof of economics at George Mason, co-founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org. Advisor to firms, incl MultiversX, TEAL, Bluechip, 0L Network +
🧵Now available! My paper with Ashruta Acharya and Alek Psrurek on the most generous engagement with the most influential "model" of degrowth. TLDR: It doesnt hold empirically. It predicts the opposite.
at any moment there are ~2 million people living in the sky, an entire major city riding the rainbow. you belong to an incredible civilization “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their windows?”
Polymarket has acquired QCEX, a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, for $112 million. This paves the way for us to welcome American traders again. I've waited a long time to say this: Polymarket is coming home 🇺🇸🦅
"Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US?" by Maxwell Tabarrok: maximum-progress.com/p/does-cps-inv…
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
Shorting Your Rivals: A Radical Antitrust Remedy - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Osaka, Japan, has achieved a remarkable 30-year record of never losing a piece of luggage since its opening in 1994. This means that every bag, out of millions handled annually, has reached its intended destination without getting misplaced.
What happened after Sputnik? @ATabarrok provides a striking summary: NSF funding tripled in a year and increased by a factor of more than ten by the end of the decade. The National Defense Education Act overhauled universities and created new student loan programs for foreign…
Also one half of the Cobb-Douglas production function.
Most recruits are 21 when they step onto Parris Island. Paul Douglas was 50. A professor, politician, and patriot, Douglas left behindb a life of comfort in 1942 to enlist in the Marine Corps-becoming the oldest recruit in Parris Island history. From enduring boot camp without…
🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card. Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10…
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
Come to Mason's economics department, I will train you
what is the university where evil people go to learn how to be more evil
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
I don’t think she should be ridiculed.
Donna Briggs, a US black woman who has “changed race” using surgery and skin treatments is opening up discussion online about why transgender is socially accepted but transracial isn’t. If people like her and Rachel Dolezal are ridiculed, why aren’t men like Dylan Mulvaney
I've known 2 kids who drowned so I retweet this annually: Drowning doesn’t look like drowning: slate.com/articles/healt… via @slate
I don’t even know what this is, Salem MA
"If you disrupt my course, I am going to kick the shit of you."
Robert Nozick, dealing with grad students who weren't pleased with his course on capitalism.