Tyler Cowen
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Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
We estimate the economic value of zoning reform in São Paulo, which altered maximum permitted construction along transportation corridors.
The economics of H-1B immigration
We study the effects of H-1B immigration on U. S. industries that employ H-1B workers and their trading partners.
Emergent Ventures winners, 57th cohort
Oisin O’Gorman, 15, Dublin, misinformation and fakes. Karsen Lee Wahal, Stanford, is AI killing the web?, and measuring media slant.
What should I ask Nick Bostrom?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. So what should I ask? If you need them, here are various Bostrom links.
How does the market regard stablecoins?
We study the demand for safety and liquidity in the crypto ecosystem.
*Rome’s Age of Revolution*
The author is Tim Whitmarsh and the subtitle is Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity.
On infinite ethics
Infinite numbers have long troubled utilitarian ethicists: if the universe is boundless, then there is infinite positive utility and infinite negative utility, and we can’t even define our current…
On the Acemoglu-Autor et.al. fertility result
Here is criticism from Revana Sharfuddin. Here is criticism from JFV.
Mexico (Taiwan) fact of the day
Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence.