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Is It Time to Bring Back the Boarding House?
Housing models that have long been banned in American cities could help make them affordable again.
China fact of the day
China is set to add new coal-fired power plants equivalent to the EU’s entire capacity, as the world’s biggest energy consumer ignores global pressure to rein in carbon emissions in its bid to boost a slowing economy. Across the country, 148GW of...
Problems with the TFP concept, from my new paper with Ben Southwood
Here is another excerpt from “Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down?”: First, many scientific advances work through enabling a greater supply of labor, capital, and land, and those advances will be undervalued by a TFP metric. Let’s say...
American Economic Association
Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets by Supreet Kaur. Published in volume 109, issue 10, pages 3585-3616 of American Economic Review, October 2019, Abstract: This paper develops a new approach to test for downward wage rigidity by...
Could this be the best paper on nominal wage rigidity?
The Indian context is somewhat unusual for understanding the U.S. labor market, but arguably that throws the idea into all-the-stronger relief. Here is an abstract and paper from Supreet Kaur, who is on the job market from Harvard this year: Wage...
Frozen in Place: Americans Are Moving at the Lowest Rate on Record
Restless mobility in search of opportunity is an American hallmark, but new Census Bureau data finds that more people, especially millennials, are staying put.
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Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy (Ep. 80)
How do you survive seven years in solitary? Escape into books.
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My excellent Conversation with Shaka Senghor, medium.com/conversations-…, @ShakaSenghor, #Cowenconvos
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A therapeutic tuning fork: why is Marie Kondo selling the world’s most unnecessary item?
The queen of tidying told us to get rid of everything in our homes that failed to spark joy. Now she’s opened an online shop so we can replace it all
Progress Studies tranche of Emergent Ventures
Due to a special grant, there has been a devoted tranche of Emergent Ventures to individuals, typically scholars and public intellectuals, studying the nature and causes of progress. Here are the winners of those awards so far: Pseudoerasmus, for...
Are central banks manipulating asset prices?
That case still needs to be made, here is Cullen Roche: 1) Are Central Banks “pushing money” on people? The whole premise of the first paragraph is that Central Banks have implemented QE and forced money onto people which has resulted in a lot of...
New Arizona Development Bans Residents From Bringing Cars
A $140 million Arizona development is banning all privately owned cars in favor of scooters, bikes, and ride-sharing, testing demand for a new type of walkable neighborhood.
WSJ News Exclusive | TikTok Looking at Ways to Shake Off Its Ties to China
TikTok this year made history as China’s first social-media company to make it big in the U.S. Now, it wants to shed its label as a Chinese brand.
700,000 jobs coming as Abia secures $430m deal for Enyimba Economic City
GOING by projections, about 700,000 direct jobs will be created within 10 years when the Enyimba Economic City project takes off. This followed...
Innovation & scientific progress
Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? Tyler Cowen Ben Southwood August 5, 2019 Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Bryan Caplan, Patrick Collison, Sandra DePleijt, Daniel Leech, Fergus McCullough, Michael...
Hook, Line and Sinker: Do Tinder Matches and Meet Ups Lead to One-Night Stands?
Several recent papers have established a link between personality and Tinder use, particularly with regards to sociosexuality and motivations for use. Following up our recent publication on dating...
Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down?
That is the title of my new paper with Ben Southwood, here is one segment from the introduction: Our task is simple: we will consider whether the rate of scientific progress has slowed down, and more generally what we know about the rate of...
A review of fatty acid profiles and antioxidant content in grass-fed and grain-fed beef | Semantic Scholar
Growing consumer interest in grass-fed beef products has raised a number of questions with regard to the perceived differences in nutritional quality between grass-fed and grain-fed cattle. Research spanning three decades suggests that grass-based...