~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (569)
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The Nobel Prize lectures in economics
The post The Nobel Prize lectures in economics appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply...
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Trump City
Donald Trump wants to create Freedom Cities. It’s a good idea. As I wrote in 2008,...
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La ciudad lineal
When does it make sense to organize most of your urban activity on a (more or...
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Monday assorted links
1. Nick Bostrom on The Cosmic Host. 2. Alexander Berger on the risks and benefits of...
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Buenos Aires
Recommendations? The post Buenos Aires appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Commentssteakhouses e.g. Fogón Asado; bring...
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52 things Tom Whitwell learned in 2024
Here is one of them: In the 2020s, over 16% of movies have colons in the...
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Austin Vernon on drones (from my email)
The offensive vs. defensive framing seems wrong, at least temporarily. It should be motivated vs. unmotivated,...
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*Land Between the Rivers*
The author is Bartle Bull, and the subtitle is A 5,000-Year History of Iraq. Excerpt: Another...
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Sunday assorted links
1. The Knausgaard library. 2. A new paper on the diminishing returns to research. 3. Those...
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How to read a book using o1
You don’t have to upload any book into the system. The Great Cosmic Mind is smarter...
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o1 explains why you should not dismiss Fischer Black on money and prices
The prediction of inflation dynamics—how prices change over time—has increasingly confounded modern macroeconomists. Throughout much of...
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Noah Smith presents Ryan Oprea
But a new paper by Ryan Oprea challenges the idea that we even need something like Prospect Theory...
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Saturday assorted links
1. Brazilian economists are seeking a kind of occupational licensing (Portuguese). 2. Sovereign AI project for...
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Markets in everything, personal fire hydrant edition
The latest sought-after home amenity? Personal fire hydrants. The logic is that when there’s a major...
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How is the Russian war economy doing?
Here is a gloomy account from Vladimir Mirov: Ruble depreciation will contribute to inflation even further,...
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*Vita Nuova*, und *Herzzeit*
There is a new translation by Joseph Luzzi, and I find it an order of magnitude...
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Paul Krugman retires as Times columnist
Here is the NYT announcement. I hope they consider Noah Smith as the obvious replacement… The...
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Friday assorted links
1. AI video for training embodied agents? 2. “She uses the hashtags “hemmaflickvän” and “hemmafru” (Swedish...
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You Have Been Warned
New paper in Science, A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human...
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My excellent Conversation with Stephen Kotkin
It was so much fun we ran over and did about ninety minutes instead of the...
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Why are no trillion dollar companies being created in Europe?
That is the theme of a new Substack by Pieter Garicano, here is one excerpt: These...
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Thursday assorted links
1. A corporate comms joke. 2. These South Korean Catholic priests should be bloggers. 3. Zero-based...
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Before AI replaces you, it will improve you, Philippines edition
Bahala says each of his calls at Concentrix is monitored by an artificial intelligence (AI) program...
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Using AI to analyze changes in pedestrian traffic
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: Fortunately, there is...