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July 16, 2026
Thursday assorted links
1. On the decline of sumptuousness in cinema, part II. 2. Funding canonical visions. 3. Thiel and Wolfe on the Pope and the Antichrist. 4. Claims about blue eyes. 5. Are the world’s best counterfei...
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July 16, 2026
Spreading AI to the rest of the world
Another job we’ll have, I call this imperialism, but I mean that in a value neutral way. But AI comes to different parts of the world at different speeds. I think the countries where AI changes a l...
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July 16, 2026
My excellent Conversation with Chase Koch
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Chase and Tyler discuss if any of his father’s lessons never stuck, the guilt-trip letter his grandfather wrote three...
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July 15, 2026
Those new service sector jobs
It’s 85 years since Brian O’Nolan, better known as Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, proposed a Book Handling Agency in The Irish Times. On Sunday evening, Flann’s idea became reality. In a Ber...
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July 15, 2026
Wednesday assorted links
1. New Stephen Dubner talk show. 2. “Spain accelerates and already contributes 65% of the population growth in Europe” 3. Scott Alexander defends AI chip regulation. If AI can be that powerful (wh...
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July 15, 2026
Sub-Saharan Africa facts of the day
In aggregate its farmers are growing more cereals, such as maize (corn) and rice, than ever: nearly five times as much as in the 1960s, when many countries achieved independence. But most of those ...
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July 15, 2026
Toward a theory of uni-context
Here is a good dialogue between Derek Thompson and Agnes Callard, excerpt: Callard: In general, goodness is more context-dependent than badness. There isn’t really anything that’s good all the time...
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July 14, 2026
Tyler Cowen: The Future Belongs to AI Maniacs
National security, finance, and every aspect of life will soon be disrupted by self-taught masters of the leading AI models. Every country and individual should be prepared, writes Tyler Cowen.
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July 14, 2026
My GOAT book now has updated software/AI
Generative Book – GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?
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July 14, 2026
Tuesday assorted links
1. Were the 1980s so great for kids? 2. Elasticity Institute, new for the economics of AI. 3. Can you get a job at Bending Spoons? (WSJ) 4. How are AI agents changing basketball analytics? 5. Termi...
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July 14, 2026
Incentives matter, installment #1637
I had long wondered about this: Performance metrics can misalign individual and organizational incentives. We study a clean case: an NBA player holding the ball as a quarter expires must choose bet...
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July 14, 2026
Creating your own religion in an AI-drenched world
Religious life, I think one thing we’ll see, and this is, again, pretty soon, it won’t be hard to create your own religion. I’m not sure many people will do this. I don’t think most people will. Bu...
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July 13, 2026
Persistent Inequality in Publishing in Economics
This paper documents new facts about concentration in publishing in economics. First, the profession grows downward . The number of economists grew almost sixfold since 1990, but new entrants publi...
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July 13, 2026
The wisdom of Conor Sen
The age 20-24 unemployment rate is now ~unchanged since the AI boom began… Link and picture here.
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July 13, 2026
Monday assorted links
1. Robots learn from puffins? 2. Claims about cats (NYT). I guess they have no Coase theorem after all. 3. Iran and the Strait (WSJ). 4. “I used to be one of these people.” And Timothy Lee. As f...
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July 13, 2026
“Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP”
I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative agreem...
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July 13, 2026
My talk at DeepMind
Here is a transcript of my remarks, anything from the audience (Q&A with comments) has been cut out. Excerpt: The problem will not be how does my life get meaning, but how do I deal with all t...
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July 12, 2026
Sunday assorted links
1. NYT overview of Foucault. 2. Solar mirrors to turn night into day? (NYT) 3. How does the butterfly retain the memories of the caterpillar? 4. The Taliban declares war on smartphones. 5. Links fr...
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July 12, 2026
*A Tale of Three Cities*
The author is Bob Harris, and the subtitle is The Life and Times of Lord Daer 1763-1794. Who is Lord Daer? Don’t worry about that! So many books on the Scottish Enlightenment cover one particula...
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July 12, 2026
*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*
That is the title of a recent book by Beatrice Magistro. Some key results are: Economic knowledge consistently predicts higher support for welfare-enhancing policies (Eurozone membership, free tra...
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July 12, 2026
New space policy Substack from Mercatus
We are Rebecca, Max, and Aakrith. We are researchers at The Mercatus Center, a research organization dedicated to classical liberal ideas. Rebecca is a philosopher, Max is an economist, and Aakrith...
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July 11, 2026
Mental health sentences to ponder
Christoph Henking and Ben Baumberg Geiger found that while there has been a steep rise in the share of young Britons reporting a mental illness, the share of people who say a mental health problem ...
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July 11, 2026
Saturday assorted links
1. The tiny economist on my shoulder. 2. Beethoven in Indian classical raga. 3. Too many books? (NYT) 4. Roon on slop. 5. MIE. Taylor Swift. 6. Rolling Stones fact of the day. 7. More balloons! 8....
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July 11, 2026
Winston Marshall podcasts with me on AI
He is from the star musical group Mumford & Sons, but is also an excellent podcaster. Here is the episode, recorded before the Fable ban was lifted: Of course I do sneak in some music analogie...
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July 11, 2026
Progress against dementia
Mr Stallard has been working for a decade to corroborate this revelation. His findings have, if anything, become even more striking. Last year he and some colleagues published research in the Journ...
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July 10, 2026
Friday assorted links
1. On Jewish culture. 2. How much have the top last names changed since 1790? 3. Bernanke appointed to the Long-Term Benefit Trust of Anthropic. 4. The India 1991 Fellowship is going great. 5. UK D...
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July 10, 2026
Andrew Hall is on a roll
He is one of the new(ish) thinkers on the rise, here is his latest piece. Excerpt: For most of the past decade, anti-billionaire language was a niche product. Democratic emails invoked billionaire...
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July 10, 2026
Redux of my Homer’s Odyssey essay
On EconLib, you will find all three parts here, in reverse order.
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July 10, 2026
My Conversation with the excellent Joel Mokyr
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Joel discuss European corporations vs. Chinese clans, why the Catholic Church became obsessed with cousin-m...
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July 9, 2026
That was then, this is now
One of the cool things about European football is that it provides good evidence that high-income, high-ability individuals move in response to tax rates… That is from Jeremy Horpendahl, citing res...
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