Economy
Claims about claims (it’s happening)
The craziest LLaMA 3 reveal: The 400B+ version of the model is **on par with Claude 3 Opus**, and i ...View More
Do protests matter?
Only rarely: Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leader ...View More
My excellent Conversation with Peter Thiel
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, fi ...View More
Economic growth sentences to ponder, Argentina fact of the day
Sometimes I feel like focusing on policies that only affect growth rates by a few tenths of a perce ...View More
Why is the Biden Administration Against Fee Transparency in Education?
President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would ...View More
Barcelona escalates its role in the war against tourism
…residents of La Salut neighbourhood in Barcelona are celebrating a move to wipe themselve ...View More
The Ludwig von Mises comeback
That is the subject of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is one excerpt: The Austrian economis ...View More
Charlotta Stern and Fabio Rojas
Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom is Something We Do Together https://rowman.c ...View More
Does the NYT not recognize child abuse?
“I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the way he raises t ...View More
Data on private security forces
From a recent paper: We bring novel data to bear on these questions, presenting the largest empirica ...View More
