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Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work
Luis Garicano has one of the more unusual résumés in economics: trained at the University of Chicago Booth School under Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Sherwin Rosen, he left academia for a stint as a…
Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences Revisited
Also known as Why I Do Not Believe in the Housing Theory of Everything: Development accounting is the search for proximate sources of cross-country income differences.
Shipping to America
The vulnerability of our shipping routes remains underdiscussed, perhaps that is in some ways a good thing: We study the macroeconomic and trade-policy implications of disruptions to U.
The Macroeconomic Effect of AI through software engineering
We measure how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the economy through its impact on software engineering productivity.
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
At times we forget what an amazing wonder the Bundesrepublik Deutschland was. At the end of the World War II, Germany was one of the sickest and cruelest human societies in history, ever.
Man’s best friend?
When it comes to bear encounters in or near the wild, dogs are the aggressors in 54 percent of incidents, according to a recent study conducted by bear experts at Brigham Young University and other…
Earth fact of the day, #2
The shortages have gone on for so long that they are aggressively driving down how much carbon is being released into the atmosphere, a Washington Post analysis of data from the International Energy…
AI in science
Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement- but also concerns- about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data.
The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner.