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Dialysis, Mergers, MASSIVE FRAUD, and Competition Policy It's a bit hard to categorize this one, folks
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What Comes Next Murderers!
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Markups From the Demand and the Supply Side The markup is the difference between the price which a company charges for its product, and the cost of making one additional unit of the good.
23.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thinking Through the Economics of Existential Risk Should we tax inputs into AI?
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"Robustness" Is Not Replication We must be clear about what we are doing
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When Will They Kill Us? The hard iron at the center of all things
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The Case for Bathroom Mandates After walking through SF
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Notes on the Economy of El Salvador An island nation at heart
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Do Institutional Investors Raise Housing Prices? Parsing the evidence
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Agent Orange Did Not Cause Diabetes And we are just throwing gobs of money away
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Improving Nursing Homes in America What recent research tells us
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My Ten Favorite Papers This Year Plus job market papers!!
30.12.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Should Papers Report Their Results? Or should we review them solely on the basis of methods?
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My Best Work This Year, and Life Announcements Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Holidays!
22.12.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misallocation is Missing the Point What is convenient to measure is not the most important stuff
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What Are We To Do With A Fraudster's Work? And what if it's merely sloppy?
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A Mechanism For Preventing Theft By Roommates Simple mechanisms for peace among strangers
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Auctions on the Internet The magic of Google
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Should We Ban Phones In The Classroom? Yes, and laptops too
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Either Dishonest, Incompetent, Or Both The state of the evidence on sex trafficking
04.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Introduction to Auctions How much can we trust the empirical auction literature?
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Why You Can't Find a Cab in the Rain Does the labor supply curve bend backwards?
27.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On Genetic Screenings and Embryonic Selection More lottery tickets!
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More Grumbling About Bad Epistemics in Psychology I'm not mad! Just disappointed
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You Actually Have to Read the Studies, You Know Misrepresentations by a respected professor
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Gerrymandering Means the End of Democracy Readers of this blog and my public writing will know that I am not a fan of democracy without qualifications.
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Do Morons Make Prediction Markets More Accurate? In the past few years, we have seen the widespread popularity of prediction markets, like Kalshi or Polymarket.
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Why Gravity? Intuitive explanations of the theory of trade
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Gambling and Cheating Curious consequences of reasonable beliefs
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What Have We Learned From HANK? Everything you need to know about macroeconomics today
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