How Much Did World War II Boost Post-war Growth?
Petros Milionis and Tamas Vonyo have a new paper on this question (click through to the first pdf here), the effect was a major and long-lasting one, here is part of the abstr...
Petros Milionis and Tamas Vonyo have a new paper on this question (click through to the first pdf here), the effect was a major and long-lasting one, here is part of the abstr...
Arbel, Ben-Shahar, and Gabriel have a newly published paper on this topic, here is the abstract: Research findings show that disabled persons often develop physical and psycho...
Reddit is collecting some of its best Ask Me Anything interviews — with Bill Gates, Waffle House workers, Spike Lee, nuclear missile operators — in a “beautiful coffee ...
The MRUniversity booth at the AEA meetings polled economists on a walk-by basis, as to who should win the next Nobel Prize. The top five on the list were: Robert Barro Paul ...
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1. The man with a bionic penis will lose his virginity to a dominatrix who ran for parliament (there is no great stagnation). 2. Do better-looking women get better grades? 3. ...
If you think a lot of China’s growth slowdown already has come, the rest should prove manageable, albeit painful. That is true for both the global economy and for China. ...
During the election season Democrats can’t admit Obamacare is broken and Republicans can’t admit it won’t be repealed. An excellent post from Robert Laszewski, read the ...
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From Jessica Shiwen Cheng and Fernando Lozano: What is the role of religious institutions and religious workers in the racial earnings gap in the United States? In this paper ...
“Do I think they have the capacity to make a hydrogen bomb? I think that’s virtually impossible,” said Daniel Pinkston, an expert on North Korea’s nuclear weapons who ...
From my inbox: Tyler, We’re recruiting for our next Okun-Model fellow, which is a one-year visiting position at Brookings for early career economists. Previous fellows inclu...
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China’s top leadership plans to push ahead with deep structural reforms of agriculture and the countryside next year, but the most pressing matter is how to deal with its hu...
1. My prediction for 2016. 2. “The only literary review which is also delicious.” Larb, that is. 3. Seven products named after real world dystopian fiction. 4. The small...
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