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Here is the whole John McDermott tweet storm, in part that is the spatial legacy from the earlier system of apartheid, and in... Continue reading »
 Saturday assorted links
 2024-04-20 12:40 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen
1. Ross Douthat on whether the internet is the enemy of progress (NYT). 2. “This year, Sara and Justin Ilse finished building a floor for their home’s 230-square-foot entryway out of 65,507 pennies.” (WSJ) 3. Commentary on Zuck and Dwarkesh. 4. New open access book on Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy. 5. The decline of... Continue reading »
Decoupling from China?
2024-04-20 03:02 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler CowenMaybe, but maybe not: Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies. We document that these measures prompted a broad-based decoupling of U.S. and Chinese supply chains. Once their Chinese customers are subject to export controls, U.S. suppliers are more likely...
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I saw the film as having very definite politics, and yes I am aware of the pronouncements of the director — ignore them! I am writing about the movie, what was on the screen. The seceding states — California, Texas, and Florida — all have substantial Latino population segments. The core political message is that a nation... Continue reading »
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Friday assorted links
2024-04-19 12:32 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen1. Andrej Karpathy on Llama 3. 2. The PEN awards are on the brink of collapse. 3. These were my fiscal, political and other predictions from 2010. 4. AI is being integrated into social media — now. Social media will change. 5. New Yorker Music critic Alex Ross cites Fischer Black on noise. 6. How to make grid data centers affordable. ... Continue reading »
When I post about the skyrocketing price of housing and the need to build, commentators (include some of the most astute commentators on MR), will sometimes object by pointing to the increasing and historically high number of houses per capita. They question how this aligns with rising prices and wave vaguely towards factors like monopoly pricing,... Continue reading »
What I am nostalgic about
2024-04-19 02:30 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler CowenWith a group of friends I was having a chat about the merits of the current vs. past America. Battle of the Ancients and Moderns! I generally favor current times, but not unconditionally. So I promised them a list of what I missed from the past. To be clear, these are personal judgments, not claims about net social value. I’ll also... Continue reading »
All of this is from Devin Pope, in response to Lyman Stone (and myself). Here was my original post on the paper, concerning the degree of religious attendance. I won’t double indent, but here is Devin and Devin alone: “I’m super grateful for Lyman’s willingness to engage with my recent research on measuring religious... Continue reading »
U.S.A. fact of the day
2024-04-18 13:47 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole. The jump in Latino entrepreneurship has driven up the overall share of new businesses owned by immigrants, who accounted for 36% of launches last year compared with 25% in 2019, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data.... Continue reading »
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Thursday assorted links
2024-04-18 11:15 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen1. Interview with Ulrike Malmendier, a regional thinker in the best sense of the term. 2. “Paying Off People’s Medical Debt Has Little Impact on Their Lives, Study Finds.” (NYT) Model that. 3. Another look at suicide rates. 4. Should you have privacy rights to your brainwaves? (NYT) And should you have the right to sell or... Continue reading »
Do protests matter?
2024-04-18 07:05 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler CowenOnly rarely: Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes. Drawing on a database covering the quasi-universe of protests held...
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Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, filmed in Miami. Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old...
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