Sitemap - 2024 - Homo Economicus
Increasing Returns and Immigration
When Does Trade Benefit Everyone?
The Christian Case For Terrorism
The Cell Phone, AI, and the Future
Optimal Government Procurement
Why Your Children Shouldn’t Be Your Own
A Note on Signaling in Education
So You Want to Learn About Economics
There Are No Efficient Markets in Politics
Durable Housing and Urban Decline
Why Are There So Many Conglomerates in the Developing World?
Let’s Replace 50% of the Justice System with Prediction Markets
How Joe Stiglitz Explains Texas A&M Football
What Should Our Counterfactuals Be?
Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?
A Theory of Excess Hiring as Insurance
A Problem in the Market for Lemons
Endogenous Growth and Human Intelligence
Mergers Often Improve Efficiency
Barro’s “Democracy and Growth” is a Bad Paper
Non-linear Effects from Wildfire Smoke
Multinationals Bring Their Culture With Them
Institutional Investors, Spillovers, and Optimal Investment into Innovation
The Potato and the Modern World
The Sharecropping Problem, and Optimal Innovation
School funding doesn’t improve student outcomes
Why do firms choose to be inefficient?
America isn't causing African poverty
Are Good Management Practices Bad?
What should cryptocurrencies maximize?
The cost of borrowing should probably be included in price indices
In Defense of the Medical Establishment
Will you turn down the darn lights?
My Answers for the paradigm fellowship
Why can’t we just skip the ritual?
Let’s Use Prediction Markets for Olympic Athlete Selection!
The Social Discount Rate is Plausibly Negative
The High-Wage Thesis isn’t even wrong!
The Case for Blockchain Decentralization is Overstated
Cooperation is really quite strange
I really don’t care why evolution happened
A lot of times you just need more bidders
Inequality is overwhelmingly between firms, not within
The existence of the monopsony model does not imply a minimum wage is optimal
EAs should probably focus on recruiting the ultra-wealthy
Must we have these institutions forever?
So what if they’re below average?
The problem with psychology is that it has no theory
Songs on the Death of Children
An Appreciation of Joe Stiglitz
The Medicare Price Caps are the Moral Equivalent of Genocide
Overestimating Climate Change Damages
Please stop overusing Baumol’s cost disease
Futarchy, Distortions from Hedging, and Other Thoughts
Brain drain is probably just totally wrong
Cross-country income inequality
Scattered thoughts on slavery and the Byzantine Empire
Heblich, Redding, and Voth are Wrong!
You should get a pre-nuptial agreement
The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development
Who Really Creates Externalities?
A Brief Primer on Auction Theory