Tyler Cowen
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What should I ask Tom Griffiths?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Looking at Wikipedia: Thomas L. Griffiths (born c. 1978) is an Australian academic who is the Henry R.
Alvin Roth to the rescue, the polity that is Singapore
Singapore has launched a dating platform, the latest social-engineering experiment by the city-state’s government to tackle its fast-declining fertility rate.
What should I ask Moxie Marlinspike?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him, live at the Roots of Progress event next week.
Merging LLMs and economics research
We introduce an open-source workflow that enables an LLM to reproduce, improve, and extend an economics article using the article’s published replication package.
*Shade*
The author is Sam Bloch, and the subtitle is The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource. An interesting book on a neglected topic, here is one excerpt: Shade is not part of L. A.’s modern identity.
Don’t let AI make you dumber
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: I do not think the skeptics would put it this way, but as I read Conti, I find he has a pretty bleak fundamental view of…
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.