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Introducing the Marginal Revolution University
Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen, of Marginal Revolution, have teamed up to produce MRUniversity, an online university that will be offering courses to the general public. Their first course on...
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Evidence of aid effectiveness may reduce charitable giving for some
Ever wondered why so many charitable campaigns often lack contextual information on their aid recipients? Well, it turns out charitable groups might just be responding to some of their contributors’...
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Quick Hits
1. Lunch with the FT: Mikhail Khodorkovsky 2. Blattman on Russian politics, and other stuff. 3. Tyler Cowen asks a rather odd question…. “Are anthropologists better than you think?” My simple answer...
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Angus Deaton wins the Economics Nobel Prize
Angus Deaton of Princeton University has won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Tyler Cowen over at MR summarized Angus Deaton’s immense contribution to the study of consumption, human welfare, and...
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Tyler Cowen on the Contours of Partisanship in American Politics
Tyler Cowen has an interesting post on the contours of partisan politics in America. In the post he argues that at the state-level Republican politics and governance is superior to the Democratic...
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Urban Bias on Steroids: The Case of Thailand
This is from the Economist: The National Village Community Fund, which has allocated 500,000 baht each to almost 80,000 villages for rural projects, is now administered by the ministry of interior. The...
View ArticleCan fascists take over America?
Tyler Cowen thinks they can’t: American fascism cannot happen anymore because the American government is so large and unwieldy. It is simply too hard for the fascists, or for that matter other radical...
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The wonder that is Chinese growth
Below is an amazing illustration of shifts in the sizes of leading global economies: Wold GDP by Country pic.twitter.com/MqYJuyehAP — Michael (@mnicoletos) November 1, 2018 For more on China see here,...
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