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The Cost of Privacy

Increasing Returns and Immigration

The Welfare Cost of Christmas

My Favorite Economists

When Does Trade Benefit Everyone?

Mailbag!!

The Christian Case For Terrorism

The Superfluity of the Masses

The Cell Phone, AI, and the Future

Digital Veblen Goods and Fees

Why Do Dowries Exist?

My Best Work

Optimal Government Procurement

Why Your Children Shouldn’t Be Your Own

A Note on Signaling in Education

The Returns to Education

Why Does Unemployment Happen?

The Value of Negotiation

Should the FTC Break Up Meta?

What Should Our Priors Be?

Some Skepticism on Patents

So You Want to Learn About Economics

The O-Line Problem

There Are No Efficient Markets in Politics

Witches

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

Publication Bias

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

The Effects of Tax Salience

Misallocation is a Mirage

Do Neighbors Matter?

Clownfish are too big

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

Gambling isn’t harmful

Does Social Mobility Matter?

The Sharecropping Problem, and Optimal Innovation

KCA for Simpletons

Mailbag column!

School funding doesn’t improve student outcomes

Why do firms exist?

Why do firms choose to be inefficient?

America isn't causing African poverty

Mailbag!

The Case for Paternalism

Are Good Management Practices Bad?

Do Sticky Wages Matter?

What should cryptocurrencies maximize?

The cost of borrowing should probably be included in price indices

In Defense of the Medical Establishment

Repeal Robinson-Patman!

Things aren’t what they seem

The Market for Lemons

Will you turn down the darn lights?

The Benefits of Bombing

Abortion Off-sets

My Answers for the paradigm fellowship

We really need better data

Kremer Patent Auctions

Abraham Lincoln as Messiah

Why can’t we just skip the ritual?

The Price of Delay

Let’s Use Prediction Markets for Olympic Athlete Selection!

What’s Deadweight Loss?

Peter Diamond’s Paradoxes

The Social Discount Rate is Plausibly Negative

Conspicuous Consumption

We Must Pay More for Drugs

The High-Wage Thesis isn’t even wrong!

The Case for Blockchain Decentralization is Overstated

Cooperation is really quite strange

Experiences Quitting Twitter

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

IPOs are underpriced

Cross-country income inequality

Scattered thoughts on slavery and the Byzantine Empire

Operas I've heard, ranked

What is Ethereum for?

Heblich, Redding, and Voth are Wrong!

You should get a pre-nuptial agreement

On Mahler

On Innovation

The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development

Retalings

Who Really Creates Externalities?

A Brief Primer on Auction Theory

On Insurance

How We Read

The Chicago Cubs Really Were Hurt by Playing Day Games

Why We Rent

The Case for Reparations

Some Observations on Criminality and Recidivism