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Marginal Revolution

@MargRev

Small steps toward a much better world.

Joined February 2011

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 2 h

Wednesday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. State-level arts funding is to some extent substituting for federal arts funding. 2. Norwegian sovereign wealth fund deploys AI. And more thinking is not always good for the AI. 3. Some Amish...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 9 h

China fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself. This article is more generally about what you learn when you study...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 13 h

Markets in everything, bet on tariff repeal edition marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has offered to buy the right to hundreds of millions of dollars in potential refunds from...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 24 h

Stablecoin podcast with Garett Jones marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 37 minutes, fresh material in here, see also Spotify under Bluechip Dialogues.

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

AIs and Spontaneous Order marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Tupy and Boettke in the WSJ on AI and the economy: The belief that AI can achieve comparable results to free markets, let alone surpass them, reflects a misplaced confidence in computation and a...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

The Benefits of Scholastic Athletics marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. This paper uses longitudinal data to study the benefits of participation in scholastic athletics starting with high school participation and continuing with college athletics, including the benefits...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

The America vs. Europe thing, again marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. From my latest column at The Free Press: I worry much more about Europe in the longer run. Let’s consider how some of the most important comparisons between America and Europe are likely to change...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 21

Monday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. Wikipedia page for Camille du Gast. 2. Data on fair thinking? 3. Some 1904 fertility debates. 4. Roger Norrington, RIP. 5. How safe are bicycles? 6. New Substack: Illuminating Fertility, from LSE....

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 21

Shorting Your Rivals: A Radical Antitrust Remedy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Conventional antitrust enforcement tries to prevent harmful mergers by blocking them but empirical evidence shows that rival stock prices often rise when a merger is blocked—suggesting that many...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 21

Can we internalize the externalities from public bathrooms? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Throne’s solution relies on gating access to their facilities, but in a way the company’s founders insist means they remain accessible to all. Users are associated with a unique identifier via an app...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 21

Noah Smith on the economics of AI marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. What’s kind of amazing is that with the exception of Derek [Thompson], none of these writers even tried to question the standard interpretation of the data. They just all kind of assumed that...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 20

Sunday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. Some Haitian art works are being rescued. 2. “The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era,...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 20

What should I ask Magnus Carlsen? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. For a likely CWT. The agreed-upon topic is the history of chess. Not Hans Niemann, not life after chess, not family life, not politics, not the young Indian players. But consider the run of chess...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 20

Grand Rapids, Michigan marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Once a casualty of Rust Belt decline, downtown today is in remarkably good shape. I walked around for several hours, and virtually every building and storefront is spiffy. I did not see anything...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 20

Markets in everything marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. At Cloudflare, we started from a simple principle: we wanted content creators to have control over who accesses their work. If a creator wants to block all AI crawlers from their content, they should...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 19

Saturday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. China vs. 1950s America. 2. Techniques of persuasion can work on the AIs. Cialdini. 3. “In fact, young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 19

Noam Brown reports marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 19

Labor supply is elastic! marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Even in Denmark: We investigate long-run earnings responses to taxes in the presence of dynamic returns to effort. First, we develop a theoretical model of earnings determination with dynamic returns...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 19

Are tariffs a regressive tax? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. I hear all the time that they are, but is that true?: There are two sides to this. First, we need to figure out how consumption differs by income. Here it’s pretty clear that lower-income people...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 18

Will this law be enforced? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Mayor Adams has proposed a new 15mph speed limit for all ebikes in New York City. Lyft received direction from the Mayor’s office to reduce the maximum pedal assist speed of Citi Bike ebikes from...

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