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new book *Big Business*, due out April 9. marginalrevolution.com, Bloomberg bloomberg.com/view/contribut…,
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Osama bin Laden is dead
My quick take is that that Obama will be re-elected (getting Osama is way more important than Iraq or Saddam in the American mind, attacks on American soil, etc.), at this point the Republicans won’t try to beat him from the center and will thus...
The winners and losers of the Mueller revelations
As the information trickles out that the Mueller report probably will not end the Trump administration, it is worth thinking about how the broader landscape has changed, and who might be the winners and losers. Politically, the biggest loser is...
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tylercowen
Who are the winners and losers from Mueller/Barr?
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Harvard. Reading list and final exam for course "Conflict, Coalition and Strategy". Schelling, 1970
Syllabus with assigned readings and final examination for Thomas Schelling's 1970 undergraduate course at Harvard ""Conflict, Coalition and Strategy".
18 Things You Missed in the College Admissions Scandal (feat. Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin)
50 people, including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were busted in a large college admissions scandal in a sting code named Operation Varsity Blues. See...
Psychopathy by U.S. state: A translation of regional measures of the Big Five personality traits to regional measures of psychopathy
Rentfrow et al. (2013) constructs a cross-section of the “Big Five” personality traits and demonstrates their relationship with outcomes variables for…
How bad would a hard Brexit really be?
This account has some gloomy rhetoric, but doesn’t drum up such an awful scenario, for instance: Among the little-noticed impacts: U.K. citizens and businesses will no longer be able to register internet sites using the .eu domain, and any U.K....
The Hayek auction results are very impressive
You will find them here, for instance Hayek’s copy of Wealth of Nations went for almost 200k, it was estimated in the 4k to 6k range. “Desktop ephemera and personal effects” were estimated at 200-300 British pounds, went for 87,500 British pounds. ...
tylercowen
The Hayek auction results were crazy! His *Wealth of Nations* copy went for almost 200k
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Are Neighbors Overrated? (And Other Questions)
The latest edition of "Overrated, Underrated" with economist Tyler Cowen.
Materials science is helping to transform China into a high-tech economy
Researchers are reaping the benefits of carefully built programmes and a surge in funding.
The case for real estate as investment
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: The authors of the aforementioned study — Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor — have constructed a new database for the U.S. and 15 other advanced economies, ranging...
2019 Public Choice Outreach Summer Conference
When is the Public Choice Outreach Conference?The 2019 Outreach Conference will be held June 14-16th at the Hyatt Centric Arlington in...
Big Tech is not the enemy, Sen. Warren
These companies symbolize American creativity, entrepreneurial prowess and job creation.
Scared of Stocks? Buy a House Instead
New research shows that real estate is both a better and safer investment than previously believed.
In Honor of Alan Krueger
I can’t do Alan Krueger justice in this post. But I can say something. Much has been written about Alan’s public career. I knew him best in graduate school, and only occasionally ran into him after that. Alan and I were classmates; we were both in...
Pioneer Interview: Lenny Bogdonoff
Lenny is creating the world’s first digital genealogy of street art.