Marginal Revolution
What should I ask Philip Ball?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is Wikipedia: Philip Ball (born 1962) i ...View More
Are Hungarian pro-fertility policies failing?
Hungary-like fertility policies flatly don't work. Hungary has dedicated major resources to this – ...View More
Trump and the Fed
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: Trump advisers have been drafting ...View More
Will Japan have a financial crisis anytime soon?
The odds are against this, and most market prices are well-behaved, noting that the yen was hitting ...View More
False Necessity is the Mother of Dumb Invention
Recently, I have seen two innovations in retail, AI cashiers and human cashiers but working remotely ...View More
Updated estimates on immigration and wages
In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers wr ...View More
Dean Ball on the new California AI bill (from my email)
SB 1047 was written, near as I can tell, to satisfy the concerns of a small group of people who beli ...View More
On deficient British growth (from the comments)
UK is a finance economy and EU/world ex-US has had terrible stock market performance since then. Ge ...View More
Public Choice Outreach!
There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! This is a great opportuni ...View More
Progress in Argentina?
Monthly inflation in Argentina could fall below 10% in April, a sign that the government’s policies ...View More