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...
The Solow model is a foundational model for understanding economic growth. Yet it’s typically not taught to principles students because it’s considered too difficult. In Modern Principles, ho...
Google plagiarism and you will find definitions like “stealing someone else’s ideas” or “literary theft.” Here the emphasis is on the stealing–it’s the original author who is being ...
Indiana’s Republican governor has just signed new law that introduces “intellectual diversity” as a standard for tenure decisions in state universities. Under the law, campus boards of tr...
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one of America’s best and best-known novelists and essayists, whose award-winning works like Hous...
Bryan Caplan has a good post on out-of-state tuition: almost always charge students from their own state much lower tuition. In the most recent data, average out-of-state tuition for four-year...
Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit: Tom: …So, I know that you’re a voracious reader, you’re immensely curious. Going back to your chi...
a16z has issued the talks from that event, and we are issuing it too, as a bonus episode of CWT. But note it is shorter than usual, and not the typical CWT format — this was done for an audie...
Here is the video, audio, and transcript, taped in his Apollo office in NYC. Here is the episode summary: Marc Rowan, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, joined Tyler to discuss why...
Please apply and send your students to the 2024 Public Choice Outreach Conference! The conference is a crash course in public choice. It’s entirely free. Indeed scholarships are available! More...
Distraction is everywhere. As I write this post, I pause to check twitter. Phones are omnipresent and demand our attention. Dopamine hits rule. Yet, despite the potential for greater distraction,...
Via Francis Santora, Hudson County, NJ. The post Claude 3 Opus as economic analyst appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
419 Swedish economists were asked which economics concepts are most important to understand and manage economics "for an individual" and "for a citizen", respectively. Opportunity cost was the mo...
What percentage of individuals attending economics graduate school — at the higher levels — have an undergraduate economics major? What is the best source on this question? And other than...
A superb video on the history and mathematics of options pricing from Veritasium. The post The Black-Scholes-Merton Options Pricing Equation appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .