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Can We Believe Anything About Markups?

The Incredible Macroeconomic Implications of Uniform Pricing

Why Are You, an Effective Altruist, Donating to Charity?

Are Rich People Good or Bad?

Price-match Guarantees and Monopoly

What Do Economists Do?

Reviews of Gattaca and The French Connection

Should We Take Everything from the Old to Give to the Young?

So You Want To Estimate Markups

A Simple Model of Market Volatility

Are Decisions Under Risk Decisions Under Complexity?

Price Indices, Inflation Inequality, and CPI Bias

The Value of Life is Too High

Labor Market Impacts Are Not the Same As Welfare Impacts

The Implications of Non-Linear Pricing

Zoning is Worse Than You Think

Should More Firms Be Publicly Traded?

Why Do The Same Products Have Different Prices?

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

How Shall We Increase Innovation?

The China Shock

The Work of Andres Rodriguez-Clare

What’s the Matter with India?

Democrats Can Insure the Universities and Foil The Present Administration

The History of Trade Theory, and Where It's Going Next

AI and Uzawa's Theorem

Should We Restrict Immigration To Encourage Innovation?

A Summer Reading List for the Bright and Ambitious Student

The Life's Work of Paul Krugman

The Work of Dev Patel

On the Measurement of Human Capital

The Great Depression Was In Large Part FDR's Fault

The Gains From Trade Are Large

My Conversation with Hanania

When Must We Kill Them?

Quotas in General Equilibrium

Some Misconceptions About Banks

10 Economic Trivia Questions

Teaching Evaluations Are Stupid

This Article Is About The News

The Life’s Work of Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer

You Don't Experiment Enough

Nicholas Bloom

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

The Moral Duty To Marry An Immigrant

Wikipedia Articles for Hull, Moscona, and Hornbeck

Land Reform is not a Panacea

More Wikipedia Articles

Do Experiments Change Policy?

The Traffic in Poor Countries

How Should We Value Future Utility?

The Work of Chad Jones

The Primacy of Reallocation in Economic Growth

Why The Interest Rate Caps Would Be A Profound Mistake

A Brief Note on P-Doom

Three Wikipedia Pages For Great Economists

Risk Aversion Does Not Have a Great Explanation

Mandatory Gene Banks

So What Happened the Last Time We Tried That?

Some Criticisms of Georgism

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

A Comment on the IQ of Inventors

Optimal Unemployment Insurance

The Michener-Grubb Affair

So You Want To Learn About Economics, Pt. II

Mini-post on Log Returns to Education

The Peter Principle

Autocorrelation in Two Acts

Randomly Assigned Policies

A Collision

Learning-by-doing in the Semiconductor Industry

Democrats, Cities, and the Media

Will Transformative AI Really Raise Interest Rates?

Why Tariffs are Never the Optimal Industrial Policy

The Methodology of Positive Economics

The Marginal Cost Controversy

Should Effective Altruists Have Kids?

An Interview With Martin Rotemberg

Spurious Mobility in Historical Datasets

Ulysses Unbound

A Brief Note on AI Complementarity