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Matthew Lilly on Saez and Zucman
From an email: The eye-catching result here is they have consumption taxes being *sharply* regressive, e.g. 12% for the lowest income group. I’m not aware of any US state that has state + average local sales rates tax that high. And lots of goods...
Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more
Online shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewelry, tools & hardware, housewares, furniture, sporting goods, beauty & personal care,...
EconEd 2019 - Day 1
Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. EconEd is a community built by instructors coming together to get the most out of economics educat...
Signed copy Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction. Illustrated by Zach Weinersmith (SMBC ). Signed copy Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan and Zach...
Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan's Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million
Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor with security clearances, and the U.S. government does not like...
The unspeakable truth about slavery in Mauritania
Though outlawed, slavery persists in Mauritania. Photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month there photographing and talking to people touched by its blight
Why older people should be allowed to change their legal age – Joona Räsänen | Aeon Ideas
Older people face discrimination based on their chronological age. The solution seems obvious: allow legal-age change
Alex Tabarrok
From reductio ad absurdum to policy proposal in record time.
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Repeal The Porn Laws
Our freedoms and right to privacy are under attack - and nobody is talking about it.
It’s time to take action.
The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
Did technology disrupt the drug game, too?
The O-Ring Model of Development
Michael Kremer’s Nobel prize (with Duflo and Banerjee) reminded me of his important paper The O-Ring Theory of Development. I also rewatched my video on this paper from Tyler’s and my online class, Development Economics. This was from our powerpoint...
Norman Schofield
Professor Schofield is currently working on topics in the theory of social choice, political economy, and democracy. He is director of the Center in Political Economy.
Esther Duflo: How to Find the Right Questions -
In this piece, originally published in 2011 by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Esther Duflo, co-recipient of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, reflects on her academic...
Alex Tabarrok
Tonight's lesson for my students: Esther Duflo on finding data:
"I traced the reference for the document that said where the schools were built. All that was needed was a trip to Indonesia to copy that book..."
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Ocasio-Cortez is getting her own action figure
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is about to reach “icon status” — with her very own action figure.
O-Ring Model
The O-Ring theory of development deals with how firms and economies are organized when one weak link in the production process can destroy the entire value o...
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Alex Tabarrok
My teaching video on Nobelist Michael Kremer's very important O-Ring Model of Development
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Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty
Immigration and growth would help more than addressing the winners’ ‘manageable questions.’
The Nobel Prize in Economic Science Goes to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
The Nobel Prize goes to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (links to home pages) for field experiments in development economics. Esther Duflo was a John Bates Clark Medal winner a MacArthur “genius” award winner and is now the second...
Blogs Cannot Tell You What to Do With Your Career
But I can. Plus: advice on bosses who talk about diversity but keep on hiring white people.
Halloween Video Submissions (2019)
Guess these econ Halloween costumes for a chance to win!
How to Work and Sleep at the Same Time
An amazing result: Many people have claimed that sleep has helped them solve a difficult problem, but empirical support for this assertion remains tentative. The current experiment tested whether manipulating information processing during sleep...
Woman killed in own home when Fort Worth officer shoots her, police and witness say
Fort Worth police released body camera video Saturday of a deadly officer-involved shooting on Allen Ave. An officer shot and killed a woman in her home after a neighbor called police because a door was open.