Tag: #economics (430 posts)

September 23, 2026: The History of Fishes
September 22, 2026: Bologna Porticoes
June 4, 2026: Simulated Annealing in Software
April 4, 2026: Macroeconomic AI Elasticities
March 8, 2026: Danish Mortgage Balance Principle
December 4, 2025: Empirical Learning Curve Limits
November 16, 2025: National Capital Accounting
November 8, 2025: Pop-Up Micro-Bakery Economics
August 8, 2025: Indian Civil Service Rent-Seeking
February 8, 2025: Epistemic Levels of AI
November 22, 2021: Payday
October 29, 2021: Economics Nobel
October 11, 2021: Differences in differences
July 9, 2021: Lockdown Effectiveness
June 28, 2021: Construction remains terrible
June 18, 2021: COVID Civilizational Shift
June 11, 2021: Better Crowdfunding
June 11, 2021: AI Labor Supply
April 23, 2021: Amazon Workers Spoke
April 17, 2021: Innovation Wealth
March 30, 2021: Moore's Law for Everything
March 16, 2021: All futurism is Afrofuturism
February 4, 2021: China Slackers
January 30, 2021: COVID-19 bifurcation
January 30, 2021: Metaverse value chain
January 28, 2021: Libertarians in a Pandemic
January 15, 2021: Monkey ransom
January 14, 2021: COVID-19 not over
November 23, 2020: Metaverse economy
October 28, 2020: NYC Food Waste App
July 18, 2020: Life & health insurance
July 8, 2020: Human Trajectory
June 21, 2020: Plasma market failure
June 9, 2020: Pandemic Oil Decline
May 20, 2020: The new economics of chess
May 16, 2020: Light cost
April 26, 2020: Ban parties not business
April 14, 2020: Social vs economic distance
March 23, 2020: Against DPA
March 21, 2020: Economy freezer
January 15, 2020: Fixing real wage stagnation
December 23, 2019: Automation Crisis?
December 5, 2019: Internet GDP
October 4, 2019: Future Of Work stories
October 2, 2019: Harbinger customers
September 11, 2019: Existential risk and growth
August 2, 2019: UBI Plans
June 27, 2019: Grabbing Now vs Later
June 19, 2019: Hal Varian
June 7, 2019: Privacy economics
February 21, 2019: Belt and Road
February 14, 2019: AI Services Economics
February 14, 2019: UBI Might Hurt Poor
February 5, 2019: Clean energy jerbs
November 16, 2018: Geno-economics
October 24, 2018: Ben Thompson
September 27, 2018: Liberal Radicalism
September 24, 2018: Syverson on Productivity
September 12, 2018: SWF+UBD
September 8, 2018: Gentrification Is in the Stars
September 2, 2018: Politics of Homeownership
September 2, 2018: Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient
August 14, 2018: Intangible Assets
July 23, 2018: Rural E-Commerce
July 4, 2018: 4x Wealth from Global City
June 28, 2018: Capital In The 21th Century
June 21, 2018: Medicine Cost Disease
May 29, 2018: UBI vs Basic Jobs
May 21, 2018: Dematerialization
May 9, 2018: Bryan Caplan
April 27, 2018: Against Education
March 3, 2018: Retail Future
February 20, 2018: Technological Unemployment
January 4, 2018: Collective Action Kills Innovation
November 12, 2017: Inferring lost cities
November 9, 2017: Roman Industrial Revolution?
September 29, 2017: Maps economic impact
September 4, 2017: Privatize bus systems
July 8, 2017: Urban Revitalization Factors
July 1, 2017: AI taxation
June 26, 2017: Minimum wage effects
May 22, 2017: Investors and climate risk
May 14, 2017: Cost disease
May 11, 2017: China trade education
April 12, 2017: Asset-light economies
April 3, 2017: Medical Tourism SEZ
February 26, 2017: Assimilation dilemma
February 26, 2017: Cowen On Complacency
February 12, 2017: Law School Glut
February 7, 2017: Cities Too Small?
December 18, 2016: Bank Accounts for Everyone
December 7, 2016: Opendoor
November 19, 2016: Mega Merger Consultants
November 15, 2016: Cooperating with 1 Belt 1 Road?
November 11, 2016: India’s Demonetization
July 17, 2016: What are young men doing?
May 15, 2016: Automation 2036
April 20, 2016: Union endgame
April 19, 2016: State-level regulations
March 14, 2016: Instant Learning and the Next Economy
March 10, 2016: Automation Wishful thinking
February 19, 2016: Central banks buying assets
February 16, 2016: The Rise of Renting
February 14, 2016: Cheap oil has consequences
January 25, 2016: Nonrival Goods
January 9, 2016: Visas need to die
October 30, 2015: India constitution
October 19, 2015: The yuan %
October 10, 2015: Uncompetitive companies survive
September 19, 2015: Poor fast food
September 13, 2015: Peak Environmental Impact
August 22, 2015: 1B Americans
August 3, 2015: Learning to Speak Lingerie
July 15, 2015: Biosimilars
July 12, 2015: Britain slaveholder bailout
June 20, 2015: Robot Boost
June 1, 2015: The Education Myth
May 24, 2015: Revisiting retirement
May 20, 2015: $5.3T Energy Subsidy waste
April 29, 2015: Low housing supply
April 20, 2015: access beats ownership
April 17, 2015: evil Homeowner subsidies
April 4, 2015: Firms Now 80% Dark Matter
March 31, 2015: Hidden Effects of Cheap Oil
March 19, 2015: Arabic ring in Viking grave
March 8, 2015: The first market state
March 2, 2015: 8 ka trade
February 22, 2015: Peak code?
December 18, 2014: The history of the pallet
November 27, 2014: Attacking medical waste
November 14, 2014: Wealth and Happiness
November 3, 2014: 80% poverty reduction
October 29, 2014: Destroy Red Cross
October 25, 2014: EVE Online economics
October 13, 2014: Tirole wins Nobel
October 4, 2014: Economic analysis
September 28, 2014: Poverty is fractal
September 14, 2014: Did Industry Cause Nations?
August 16, 2014: Humans need not apply
July 4, 2014: Youth unemployment
May 17, 2014: China Construction
May 3, 2014: How Important Is Inequality?
April 9, 2014: Uber and Airbnb Resurrect Dead Capital
April 5, 2014: Negative Equity
April 3, 2014: Gates is doing good
March 26, 2014: India does software right, sometimes
March 20, 2014: Detroit special economic zone
February 6, 2014: Against product variety
February 2, 2014: Russia pretends for the Olympics
January 1, 2014: Largest migration in history
December 22, 2013: Anti-inflationary Wealth Concentration?
December 3, 2013: Overpaying 4x for health
November 27, 2013: Life extension solvency
November 22, 2013: Student loans
November 15, 2013: China economic reforms
November 13, 2013: Inefficient forms of aid
October 26, 2013: Great gov IT raises GDP
September 29, 2013: Shanghai FTZ
September 17, 2013: Real Estate lowers GDP
August 17, 2013: Sexual Activity wage effect
July 29, 2013: NGO have huge headroom
July 27, 2013: You Are Not an Artisan
July 5, 2013: Public sector unions need to be destroyed
June 13, 2013: The stimulus is all wrong
May 11, 2013: The Underground Recovery
April 9, 2013: China is overbuilding
April 4, 2013: Money laundering at scale
April 2, 2013: Accelerated Learning
March 30, 2013: Cash transfers work
March 17, 2013: Europe
February 21, 2013: Escaping 2 economic traps
February 16, 2013: Huge boost to trade
February 14, 2013: Automated manufacturing
February 7, 2013: Unions trying to sell weed
January 18, 2013: Deficit states
January 4, 2013: Life in a post-work society
December 18, 2012: Aadhaar
December 18, 2012: Trader elephants
December 11, 2012: Zoning is evil
November 13, 2012: Let's have lots of city states
October 27, 2012: Maybe education can be saved?
August 20, 2012: College counseling
August 16, 2012: winning isn't everything
August 16, 2012: Competition
July 11, 2012: Real economic experiments?
July 3, 2012: Uploads economics 101
February 16, 2012: Failed states unemployment
February 6, 2012: Recycling 2b jobs
February 4, 2012: Synthetic culture
January 21, 2012: Home Ownership is a fraud
December 30, 2011: Marginal revolutionaries
December 7, 2011: Service economy displacement
November 30, 2011: Overleveraged countries
November 12, 2011: Padded books
November 11, 2011: Marginal transaction costs
November 9, 2011: coopted Union
October 23, 2011: Who controls the world?
September 13, 2011: Bullshit jobs
July 29, 2011: US gov has less cash than Apple
May 13, 2011: License Mafia
March 25, 2011: End of work questions
February 16, 2011: Great Stagnation
February 13, 2011: The Experience Economy
January 30, 2011: Medicine isn't about health
December 13, 2010: Regulations
October 25, 2010: Arrow's Theorem
October 19, 2010: Peak Data Approaches?
October 16, 2010: Networked Start-ups
September 27, 2010: Make The Revolution
August 29, 2010: Renting Out Belongings
August 17, 2010: China 2nd largest economy
August 4, 2010: Robot Traders
July 12, 2010: Tencent
July 2, 2010: The Lights In the Tunnel
May 13, 2010: France Euro Threat
April 5, 2010: Thriving Among Pirates
September 12, 2009: Global Services
July 24, 2009: Free Education
July 11, 2009: Saving capitalism
July 10, 2009: Innovative Deflation
July 9, 2009: Gone economy
July 6, 2009: The Choice of Cities
July 2, 2009: 20% Unemployment?
June 23, 2009: Teacher Rubber Rooms
June 23, 2009: Engineers Are The Best Deal
June 19, 2009: Against cash
June 19, 2009: Cost of Living Decline
April 21, 2009: Shrink Flint
March 30, 2009: Econoland
March 28, 2009: The Quiet Coup
March 26, 2009: Transnational companies
March 9, 2009: Homeownership & unemployment
February 25, 2009: Against Home Ownership
February 22, 2009: Crime is #1 in Italy
February 22, 2009: Gold fever sweeps suburbia
February 16, 2009: Drunk finance
February 9, 2009: Remedial Financial Training
February 6, 2009: Stimulus Watch
February 3, 2009: India growth
January 30, 2009: Economic Nationalism
January 28, 2009: Dating A Banker Anonymous
January 15, 2009: Bike Lanes
January 6, 2009: Porn Bailout
December 30, 2008: Infrastructure and Flow
December 26, 2008: When Giants Fall
November 23, 2008: Desuburbanization
November 16, 2008: Auto Bailout
November 14, 2008: Predictions of Dow Doom
November 12, 2008: Deficit Heatmap
November 12, 2008: US Credit
November 9, 2008: Consolidate Detroit
October 29, 2008: Pirate Bay
October 20, 2008: American Dream a Biological Impossibility
October 13, 2008: Iceland Economic Collapse
October 10, 2008: Deleveraging
October 7, 2008: China bailing out US
September 29, 2008: Minority Lending
September 22, 2008: Privatising fisheries works
September 19, 2008: Swiss Overleveraging
September 19, 2008: Germany Overleveraging
September 17, 2008: Broke Russia
September 16, 2008: Financial Meltdown
September 15, 2008: AIG
September 12, 2008: Homeownership negative externalities
September 9, 2008: Against HMID
September 8, 2008: US Default
August 31, 2008: Immigration trends
August 2, 2008: Emerging Entrepreneurship
August 2, 2008: Investing In Infrastructure
July 30, 2008: Streamlining California
June 13, 2008: Clusterfuck Nation
May 22, 2008: Technologies That Connect
May 19, 2008: Public Health Records
May 17, 2008: Solipsistic Tourism
May 11, 2008: Gasoline at $2 a liter
May 10, 2008: Financial Armageddon
May 1, 2008: Kill Sports
April 30, 2008: Tax Transparency
April 26, 2008: Cognitive Surplus
April 10, 2008: Smartphone Ending Poverty?
April 2, 2008: China Boomtowns
March 27, 2008: extreme Outsourcing
March 21, 2008: Fake Victims
February 18, 2008: Wealth and Religiosity
February 17, 2008: Subsidize Cities
February 15, 2008: Technology Diffusion
February 14, 2008: Commitment Contracts
January 28, 2008: Bush Accomplishments
January 24, 2008: Fertility Control
January 17, 2008: Marriage and the Market
January 15, 2008: Japan GDP
January 12, 2008: Realestate Skills
January 9, 2008: Sarkozy goes off the rails
January 7, 2008: NAR Lies
December 30, 2007: US recession
December 22, 2007: A Talent Contest We're Losing
December 10, 2007: Replacing Business Travel
December 8, 2007: the first 40% of US CO2 reduction is cheap
December 5, 2007: Against Realestate bailouts
December 2, 2007: Most Anti-Tech Organizations
December 1, 2007: By a Thread
November 29, 2007: Laissez-Faire Marriage
November 28, 2007: Union Strike Analysis
November 17, 2007: Alibaba
November 17, 2007: Consumer champion
November 17, 2007: Beware of demob
November 14, 2007: $8b gift card scam
November 13, 2007: Technology Wants To Be Free
November 9, 2007: Bush Consequences
November 4, 2007: PetroChina hits $1t
November 4, 2007: Striking for Extinction
November 3, 2007: Product Space
November 1, 2007: US visitor drop
October 31, 2007: Rorschach Economics
October 25, 2007: Buffalo
October 21, 2007: Redefining age measurement
October 14, 2007: Is Zipcar revolutionary?
October 10, 2007: Storage too cheap to meter?
October 10, 2007: The cost of a search
October 4, 2007: Left should love liberalism
September 30, 2007: Strike Economics
September 24, 2007: Strikes are irrational
September 9, 2007: willyoujoinus.com
August 31, 2007: Artisanal economy
August 31, 2007: Homeownership vastly overrated
August 28, 2007: Job Automation
August 26, 2007: Transparency pays for itself
August 25, 2007: PIMCO Outlook
June 28, 2007: Economist community
June 23, 2007: If these reefs are islands
June 21, 2007: Voter Bias
June 19, 2007: Behavioral economics and poverty
June 19, 2007: Antibiotics
June 11, 2007: GDP States
June 7, 2007: One Perfect Day
June 7, 2007: Useless Realtors
June 6, 2007: The Profit Calculator
May 13, 2007: US Self-Portrait
May 10, 2007: IBM and Africa
May 5, 2007: China Cities
May 5, 2007: China 5-Year Guidelines
April 28, 2007: Wall St. surprised by Internet
April 13, 2007: Buying Jobs
April 11, 2007: Expand the AMT!
April 8, 2007: Spaceports
April 6, 2007: Contagious Free trade
April 1, 2007: Supremes Go Green
March 30, 2007: QQ
March 19, 2007: Subprime
March 14, 2007: The Penny Gap
March 11, 2007: €100B subsidy transparency
March 11, 2007: Farm Subsidies
March 8, 2007: AIDS Economics
March 7, 2007: Are unions useless?
March 7, 2007: Larry Page at AAAS
February 25, 2007: Wii Retirees
February 10, 2007: Open source economy?
February 9, 2007: Vaccine Commitments
February 9, 2007: Open Source Prizes
February 2, 2007: Money
January 30, 2007: France fashion overreach
January 30, 2007: Economic globe
January 29, 2007: Wikinomics Playbook
January 29, 2007: Lithium scarcity
January 25, 2007: Protectionism vs Politics in China
January 22, 2007: Gold Farmers
January 22, 2007: Chanel 3rd World Perfume
January 16, 2007: Micro-credit puzzles
January 12, 2007: MA losing labor
January 12, 2007: Pesos death threats
December 31, 2006: Aerotropolis
December 31, 2006: Transparency is Inevitable
December 21, 2006: Quantifying the safety fetish
December 16, 2006: Life on $1 a day
December 12, 2006: Underground Economy
December 9, 2006: Got Milk?
December 9, 2006: Hard SF Economics
December 7, 2006: Longterm NPV
December 5, 2006: Income inequality
December 4, 2006: P != NP
December 3, 2006: ATMs for the Poor
December 2, 2006: Saudi Arabia
December 2, 2006: Opium glut
December 1, 2006: North Korea iPods
December 1, 2006: State of the World
November 30, 2006: The Price is Right
November 28, 2006: Open source consumer surplus
November 28, 2006: Walmart consumer surplus
November 28, 2006: Anshe Chung, SL tycoon
November 27, 2006: home improvement vs. r&d expenditures
November 27, 2006: Uninsurable
November 27, 2006: Organ Markets
November 27, 2006: Peak Water
November 22, 2006: Asymmetric Collateral Damage
November 18, 2006: Against Smoking
November 9, 2006: Pay As You Drive Insurance
November 8, 2006: Micropayments and Free Content
November 4, 2006: Kevin Murphy profile
October 31, 2006: 3 ka BP Wealth of Nations?
October 29, 2006: Global Rich List
October 25, 2006: Fungi
October 24, 2006: Adopting countries
October 17, 2006: Open Budget Index
October 15, 2006: Medicine is Primitive
October 11, 2006: Prediction Markets
October 10, 2006: Center for the New Europe
September 30, 2006: Largest economic entities
December 12, 2005: Second life euphemism
September 2, 2005: New Orleans consequences
August 31, 2005: Shorting SUV
November 11, 2004: community currencies
November 7, 2004: Real Money in Virtual Economies
July 9, 2004: Spitzer AG / Spitzer Inc
May 23, 2004: Designing Trust
April 24, 2004: Energy intensity
March 24, 2004: New digital divide
March 19, 2004: trade legalism
February 3, 2004: weapons on sale
July 25, 2003: jail bags
April 19, 2003: Plastics
March 1, 2003: Davos of the mind
February 19, 2003: information far from the median
November 21, 2002: Peer production for information assets
November 13, 2002: Switzerland is going down the toilet
September 24, 2002: Innovation is crucial
August 1, 2002: H1B fun
January 29, 2002: Virtual economies
October 31, 2001: moving bits, not atoms
October 7, 2001: Russia Bookkeeping
September 27, 2001: lameness at the top