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Apologies!  I took down my post based on this tweet, which upon further reflection struck me as premature.  Does anyone have actual word from the would-be co-author as to what happened?  Note ...

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Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, it seems was banned from Princeton.  Ostensibly for partaking in illegal demonstrations. I am not saying whether this is justified or not, ...

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Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him.  Here is Wikipedia: Paul Bloom…is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cogn...

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Here is a new paper by Sara Abrahamsson.  Perhaps there is Norwegian exceptionalism at work, but the results reflect my expectations reasonably closely.  The basic setting is that smart phones ...

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses just got a massive Multimodal upgrade – Meta AI with Vision It doesn't just take speech input, it can now answer questions about what you are seeing. Here are 8 featu...

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Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universities has dramatically increased over the years. This adding an enormous cost of doing research. (So...

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President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would ban businesses from charging hidden and misleading fees and require them to show the full price ...

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“I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the way he raises them. They’re radically home-schooled. They’re 17 and nonbinary, 6 and 5. They know ever...

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In my 2011 book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance, I wrote: At times, teacher pay in the United States seems more like something from Soviet-era Russia than 21st-century America. Wages for te...

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We often hear today that Wokeism and Political Correctness are gradually receding.  Contrary to this opinion, I think that this phenomenon is gradually being “normalized,” widely accepted ev...

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Stanford alum, business school dean Jonathan Levin named Stanford president The post Economist Jonathan Levin is the new president of Stanford appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Here is the transcript, audio, and video.  Here is the episode summary: But might technological advances and good old human resilience allow kids to adapt more easily than he thinks? Jonathan jo...

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Alex Bartik and Arpit Gupta, Chicago and NYU, to work on zoning codes, machine learning, and LLMs. Sasha Przyblski, 16, Ontario, building more durable batteries. Egzona Marina, Kosovo and MIT, to...

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Here’s my talk on teaching the super simple Solow model which Tyler and I present in our principles textbook, Modern Principles. Here are the slides. The post Teaching the Super Simple Solow ...

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Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  You can tell he knows what an interview is!  At the same time, he understands this differs from many of his other venues and he responds with flying c...

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