Monday assorted links
1. George Miller talks movies, silent movies, Mad Max, and Furiosa (New Yorker). 2. In this Greg Clark study, fertility seems not very heritable. 3.
Late Admissions – Marginal REVOLUTION
NYTimes: Glenn C. Loury’s new book, “Late Admissions,” is unlike any economist’s memoir I have ever read. Most don’t mention picking up streetwalkers. Or smoking
Innovation Matters – Marginal REVOLUTION
Innovation Matters a podcast of the United Nations Economic Cooperation and Integration Group interviews me on matters related to innovation. If productivity growth had continued
How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Wage Rigidity?
Perhaps not as much as you might think: We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of inflation and unemployment dynamics. Our main result is
Sunday assorted links
1. The most notable person from each geographic area? 2. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp. 3. Skepticism about the new and higher estimates of
Why prediction markets are not popular
By Nick Whitaker and J. Zachary Mazlish, this is the best piece on this question so far. Excerpt, noting I will not double indent: “Rather
The Generalist interviews me
I was happy with how this turned out, here is one excerpt: I think we’re overestimating the risks to American democracy. The intellectual class is
Saturday assorted links
1. The OpenAI library (NYT). 2. Switzerland fact of the day. Trains. 3. Are women psychologists more censorious than male psychologists? 4. New meta-study on
Why is Africa so expensive?
Here is a very good Substack post by Oliver Kim, here is the key paragraph: Intuitively, poorer countries have more of their labor forces and