If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy. Pushing against the consensus is fine; it’s often how progress...
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use...
The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that...
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade....
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We find that interventions (e.g., busing) that move children to a more favorable neighborhood have large effects but lose impact...
alexmccullough at Dune has a very good post on the accuracy of Polymarket prediction markets. First, how do we measure...
A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows...
Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether...
Yes he used to run Rhodesia, and yes it is costly to buy this book because no one wants to...
