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ECONOMICS

Brian Chau at work

Marginal Revolution

I am automating investigative journalism at http://Effort.News We’re breaking five stories today based on verifiable financial data which everyone missed for years. Here is the entire thread, which also describes the ...

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ECONOMICS

Monday assorted links

Marginal Revolution

1. Tax land more heavily than structures. 2. “Our findings suggest that equality-oriented governments adopt an approach that insures the middle, buffers the poor, but spares the rich. The result is a rhetorical commit...

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ECONOMICS

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

Marginal Revolution

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and soc...

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ECONOMICS

Act like it is science

Marginal Revolution

I am seeing so many doom prognostications, or least severe worries, due to the OAI/HuggingFace incident and related stories. But virtually all of these I find underargued to say the least. So I have a simple request. ...

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ECONOMICS

Sunday assorted links

Marginal Revolution

1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3. AI-generated Odyssey in Vietnam. 4. Questio...

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ECONOMICS

JFK’s AI Voice

Marginal Revolution

From Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” “United, there is little we can...

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ECONOMICS

Pressure

Marginal Revolution

Who would have thought that someone could make a gripping movie about predicting the weather? Nevertheless, Pressure delivers. To be sure, it’s predicting the weather for D-Day. Excellent cast. Hews very close to the ...

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