Marginal Revolution
The Labor Market Returns of Being An Artist
The labor market penalty to choosing the arts seems to be rising: Using individual-level data from t ...View More
Will misinformation be an electoral problem?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: …consider the story that former Pr ...View More
From the comments, on the new Meta smart glasses
There is clearly a lot of negative emotional reactivity regarding these glasses going on here, but ...View More
From the comments, on OWS and PEPFAR
There is somewhat of an intellectual void in Republican leadership over the past 20 years. Occasion ...View More
New issue of Econ Journal Watch
This is now twenty years of Econ Journal Watch, congratulations to Dan Klein! Here is the tabl ...View More
*The Creator* (movie review with spoilers)
This movie was deeper and more philosophical than I was expecting. Imagine a Buddhism that dec ...View More
Work From Home Works
It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to ...View More
PEPFAR has been a great achievement
PEPFAR is the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, started by George W. Bush in 2003. Ov ...View More
Sentences to ponder, scientific fraud edition
In 2015, a big team of researchers tried to redo 100 psychology studies, and about 60% fai ...View More
Oxford fact of the day, medieval murder edition
The research suggests that Oxford’s student population was by far the most lethally violent soc ...View More
