Marginal Revolution (@MargRev)

Jun 30

Jackson Dahl podcasts with me and Nabeel on aesthetics marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Jackson Dahl podcasts with me and Nabeel on aesthetics - Marginal REVOLUTION

Filmed at home, this ran about two hours, and yes that is Nabeel Qureshi, with a cameo from Spinoza toward the very end. From Jackson: Links Transcript/links Twitter Spotify Apple YouTube LinkedIn...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 30, 2026 · 7:19 AM UTC

Apr 30

Stablecoin sentences to ponder marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Stablecoin sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION

Mr Bessent’s bullishness notwithstanding, this month his department released a proposal that would treat stablecoin issuers as financial institutions for the purposes of anti-money-laundering and...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 30, 2026 · 4:27 AM UTC

Apr 30

My very charming Conversation with Craig Newmark marginalrevolution.com/margi…

My very charming Conversation with Craig Newmark - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Craig discuss why webpage design has gotten worse for 30 years, what Craig’s “obsessive customer service...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 29, 2026 · 5:05 PM UTC

Wednesday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. How to euthanise a whale. 2. Will MacAskill and Rob Wiblin podcast. 3. Citation cartels? 4. Nick Pope died too early (NYT). 5. Estimating the returns to education, adjusting for genes. 6. Profes...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 29, 2026 · 11:20 AM UTC

Capitalism and Modernity marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Capitalism and Modernity - Marginal REVOLUTION

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, one of the few economists in the world equally at home solving stochastic dynamic optimization problems as with sociological theory and history, has an excellent series...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 29, 2026 · 7:14 AM UTC

Are we finally seeing some market clearing prices for movies? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Are we finally seeing some market clearing prices for movies? - Marginal REVOLUTION

One of the best selling points of a night out at the movies has long been how cheap it was for two hours-plus of entertainment. Not so much when it costs $50 a ticket. That is how much Regal Cinemas...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 29, 2026 · 4:26 AM UTC

The economic rise of Latin America? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

The economic rise of Latin America? - Marginal REVOLUTION

When the world goes looking for shelter during an oil war, the destinations are predictable: the dollar, gold, short-term Treasuries. Nobody puts Latin American sovereign bonds on that list. Yet as...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 28, 2026 · 6:38 PM UTC

Tuesday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. AI as palm reader? 2. “why we need to train models to learn their own capabilities, and how this will help them bid for work!” 3. Labor markets effects of AI. 4. Is Bob Dylan a liberal? 5....

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 28, 2026 · 11:37 AM UTC

talkie: an LM from 1930 marginalrevolution.com/margi…

talkie: an LM from 1930 - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the link, with explanation.

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 28, 2026 · 11:19 AM UTC

HUD Says It's Legal to Tell the Truth marginalrevolution.com/margi…

HUD Says Realtors Can Now Speak the Truth - Marginal REVOLUTION

HUD: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to real estate professionals clarifying they are not violating the Fair Housing Act when they share...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 28, 2026 · 6:52 AM UTC

EU fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/margi…

EU fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION

You do not hear this point made too often, yet it is true: Very interesting new study finding that *even in large European cities*, in most places it is easier to access opportunities by car than by...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 28, 2026 · 5:02 AM UTC

How Reform Happens marginalrevolution.com/margi…

How Reform Happens - Marginal REVOLUTION

What determines whether and how regulations are reformed? We use a newly constructed data set of 3,590 successful and failed regulatory reforms in 189 countries, between 2005 and 2022, to address...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 27, 2026 · 6:04 PM UTC

Apr 27

Will AI end anonymity? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Will AI end anonymity? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Like many journalists, I have a bunch of unpublished fiction lying about, so I tried Claude on the first chapter of a romance novel that I started almost 20 years ago, during the hysterical, mawkish...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 27, 2026 · 11:18 AM UTC

Apr 27

Dwarkesh! marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Dwarkesh! - Marginal REVOLUTION

It’s been great to see Dwarkesh Patel rise to the top ranks of podcasters. The profile in the NYTimes is excellent. Dwarkesh’s success is his own but I couldn’t help but smile at the early, wacky GMU...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 27, 2026 · 5:12 AM UTC

Apr 27

On health care price transparency (from the comments) marginalrevolution.com/margi…

On health care price transparency (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION

From MR commentator Sure: Generally such figures do not reside within the physicians’ office. On our side of the table we do some procedure with multiple specifications and generate some CPT code(s)...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 26, 2026 · 7:42 PM UTC

Mushroom facts of the day marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Mushroom facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION

You would be surprised to learn that almost 69% of the US mushroom production occurs in the borough of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It is a small town of about 6000 people, but mushroom-growing...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 26, 2026 · 4:50 PM UTC

Sunday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness. 2. Why you should start a company instead of working in aid. 3. Evidence that tennis has become less interesting? 4. A smidgen more on wet...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 26, 2026 · 9:27 AM UTC

Generative AI and Entrepreneurship marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Generative AI and Entrepreneurship - Marginal REVOLUTION

This paper studies how Generative AI (Gen AI) is reshaping the U.S. startup ecosystem. Exploiting the release of ChatGPT, we show that startups with greater pre-release Gen AI task exposure reduced...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 26, 2026 · 5:10 AM UTC

Will AI save the U.S. fiscal situation? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Will AI save the U.S. fiscal situation? - Marginal REVOLUTION

A tenth of a percentage point of extra productivity growth — well within the range of plausible near-term AI effects — raises the fundamental value of U.S. government debt by $1.3 trillion. If...

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Marginal Revolution · Apr 25, 2026 · 4:33 PM UTC

Apr 25

Saturday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Hedging the singularity? 2. Claude doing stand-up comedy, the video is AI too. 3. Thirty more lines from Empedocles have been found. 4. Latin America’s oil resurgence. 5. 25 dead at the Haitian...