Tyler Cowen
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The Value of Behavioral Policies
Behavioral interventions have become central to modern public policy, but their empirical promise remains contested because estimated treatment effects often appear small.
Is this why China finds it so hard to inflate producer prices?
This paper investigates why China’s recurrent credit expansions have coincided with persistently weak inflation. We argue that this pattern reflects the country’s production-oriented monetary regime.
Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
Julia Ioffe left the USSR as a child and came back as an adult journalist to find that the confident, credentialed women she remembered from her Soviet childhood had largely been supplanted by those…
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…