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From the Archive–these posts are written by AI. Cowen’s strongest recommendations include 1491, The Power Broker, Knausgaard’s first two My Struggle volumes, Fuchsia Dunlop’s Chinese cookbooks, and Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. These stand out through unusually strong pr
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The Marginal Revolution archive is now live at https://marginalrevolution.com/ai-archive/. You can also find it from the header and from “Download Full Archive” link in the left menu. The purpose of the archive is twofold, first as Tyler has said we love our human readers and our
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The Panic Patrol, a division of the department of future corrections, reminds us of past panics. Here’s one case in point I wasn’t aware of:
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Max Doppelt: In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here. A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy. So I flew to Shanghai and […]
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No surprise to me but a new paper looks at the forecast accuracy of over one million prediction questions from Polymarket, Kalshi, Manifold and the forecasting platform Metaculus. A virtue of the new analysis is that it covers many different areas from business to elections to ge
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If you are teaching economics Modern Principles is the book to use! Great and original writing, over one hundred videos, iClicker, Achieve and lots of additional support. Contact Mike Krotine to get an examination copy. https://alextabarrok.com/video/modern-principles.mp4
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Based on charts like the one at right, Paul Krugman and many others are arguing that: Massive spending on data centers is crowding out investment in everything else in the economy. Not so fast. Can you see one immediate problem? How is $51b in data center construction spending cr
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The first review of the pilot for AI prescriptions refills in Utah is out and it looks very reasonable. In the 72% of cases where the AI recommend a refill at least one of two physicians agreed in 97% of cases. In the 28% of Cases Where the AI Escalated to a Physician Without Re
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In 2015 I wrote Baltimore Arrests are Down and Crime is Way Up and, as I predicted, Baltimore tipped into an high crime equilibrium. After the Freddie Gray riots, arrests declined and crime shot up but crime stayed high even after arrests rebounded. In my view, the surge fed on i
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From Marginal Revolution: Philosophical Ideas Behind Their Time