The Best of Marginal Revolution
8 most popular Marginal Revolution articles, as voted by our community.
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Marginal Revolution on Coronavirus
A "Safety Emergency" Happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in November of 2019
Pro-Publica (with Vanity Fair) is putting their reputation on the line with a very damning report suggesting COVID emerged from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The new information isn’t about the virus but about political reports that indicate that there was some kind of emergency at the lab in November of […]
Marginal Revolution on Immigration
Open Borders: The Graphic Novel
In April, when Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration was available for pre-order Tyler wrote: [Open Borders] is a phenomenal achievement. It is a landmark in economic education, how to…
Marginal Revolution on Writing
GPT and my own career trajectory
For any given output, I suspect fewer people will read my work. You don’t have to think the GPTs can copy me, but at the very least lots of potential readers will be playing around with GPT in lieu of doing other things, including reading me. After all, I already would prefer to “read GPT” […]
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Best non-fiction books of 2020
Usually I give this list much later in November, but shopping rhythms are off this year. Furthermore The Strand bookstore in NYC is rather desperately asking for your business, as is Shakespeare & Co.…
Why We Can’t House the Homeless
During the pandemic, New York State allocated $100 million to turn struggling New York City hotels into low-cost housing. What could be simpler? Hotels are already used to house people so converting a…
The Student Loan Giveaway is Much Bigger Than You Think
Wiping out 10k in student debt is not the most expensive part of the Biden student loan program. Most Federal student loans are now eligible for an income based repayment plan, under these plans you…
Interland: A New Type of Government
Max Tabarrok has an interesting new idea for governance, Interland: Interland takes the intersection of the law codes of a large group of nations. This will produce a minimal reasonable set of laws…
The Invisible Hand Increases Trust, Cooperation, and Universal Moral Action
Montesquieu famously noted that Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and that…
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