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Berry-Hausman-Pakes Should Win the Nobel Prize
A prize for revolutionizing industrial organization
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The End of Competition in America?
Common ownership and the implications for antitrust
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Things I've Been Reading #6
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What’s the Matter with India?
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So You Want to Learn About Economics
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Why Tariffs are Never the Optimal Industrial Policy
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A Summer Reading List for the Bright and Ambitious Student
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Why do firms choose to be inefficient?
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Why Single-Payer Health Insurance Fails
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Why Don't Income Sharing Agreements Exist?
Should they?
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What Makes a Cartel Succeed?
Contradictory theory meets terrible evidence
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How and Why the BLS Adjusts Goods for Quality
And why the present administrations cuts are a giveaway to the elderly
Sep 29 • 
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Things I've Been Reading # 5
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On Equilibrium in Voting and in Product Markets
With several theoretical problems posed
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Mergers, Collusion, and Prediction Markets
Can they speed up merger review?
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Should Democrats Moderate on Abortion?
A reply to the critics of Ezra Klein
Sep 23 • 
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Things I’ve Been Reading #4
I went back and reread Michael Kremer’s 1993 paper “Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C.
Sep 20 • 
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My Thoughts on the Killing of Charlie Kirk
For there must be no mistake about it.
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