Marginal Revolution https://marginalrevolution.com/ Small Steps Toward A Much Better World Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:15:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-MR-logo-thumbnail-32x32.png Marginal REVOLUTION https://marginalrevolution.com/ 32 32 42693868 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-demand-for-human-enhancement-technologies.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-demand-for-human-enhancement-technologies The demand for human enhancement technologies https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/963192488/0/marginalrevolution~The-demand-for-human-enhancement-technologies.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-demand-for-human-enhancement-technologies.html#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:12:48 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93474 When a new technology promises large private benefits but may impose social costs that markets do not price, demand need not reveal how citizens want it governed. We examine this using a nationally representative U.S. survey experiment (N=5,556) on human enhancement technologies (HET). The experiment randomizes benefit domain, mechanism, heritability, purpose, and risk across vignettes; […]

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When a new technology promises large private benefits but may impose social costs that markets do not price, demand need not reveal how citizens want it governed. We examine this using a nationally representative U.S. survey experiment (N=5,556) on human enhancement technologies (HET). The experiment randomizes benefit domain, mechanism, heritability, purpose, and risk across vignettes; for each respondent’s assigned vignette, we elicit stated adoption, preferred regulation, and ethical and societal concerns. Overall, about 53% would adopt. Framing the technology as enhancing rather than restorative lowers adoption by about five percentage points, as much as a severe side-effect profile. About 28% would not adopt at any benefit. This refusal is driven overwhelmingly by the enhancing framing rather than by risk, consistent with a non-compensatory constraint for a substantial subgroup. Most who would adopt still favor strict regulation, and most who would never adopt do not wish to forbid others from doing so. Productivity enhancement generates the most ethical concern of any attribute but attracts the least regulation, and respondents favor subsidizing rather than taxing its adoption, consistent with a concern about access rather than safety. Private demand is therefore an unreliable guide to the governance citizens want, and the divergence we document provides a basis for regulators seeking to align the direction of technical change with societal values and priorities.

That is from a new NBER working paper by Giovanni Immordino, Mario Macis, Immacolata Marino & Fabrizio Panebianco.  And I will repeat this segment: “Productivity enhancement generates the most ethical concern of any attribute…”  Do note of course that the last sentence of the authors is completely unwarranted, and is a classic example of underidentified political bias in academic reasoning.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-demand-for-human-enhancement-technologies.html/feed 0 93474 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-common-sense-of-fareed-zakaria.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-common-sense-of-fareed-zakaria The common sense of Fareed Zakaria https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/963183701/0/marginalrevolution~The-common-sense-of-Fareed-Zakaria.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-common-sense-of-fareed-zakaria.html#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:56:48 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93471 This is one of the best Op-Eds you will read this year, though it deliberately deemphasizes the personal (no one is attacked) in a manner that will result in less attention.  Better to write the truth!  Excerpt: Why has this [voter discontent} happened? Some of it is economic. Expensive housing, stagnant incomes and widening inequality have fueled public […]

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]]> This is one of the best Op-Eds you will read this year, though it deliberately deemphasizes the personal (no one is attacked) in a manner that will result in less attention.  Better to write the truth!  Excerpt:

Why has this [voter discontent} happened? Some of it is economic. Expensive housing, stagnant incomes and widening inequality have fueled public anger. But economics is only part of the story. America has enjoyed stronger growth than most other advanced economies. France under President Emmanuel Macron has lowered unemployment, and it has attracted more foreign investment projects than any country in Europe for seven straight years, according to an Ernst & Young analysis. South Korea is an economic success story. Japan was experiencing a comeback. Yet democratic governments almost everywhere are unpopular.

The larger explanation is that we are living through one of history’s great technological revolutions. And these transformations always produce deep anxiety and fear.

The last technological transformation on this scale came between roughly 1880 and 1920. Electricity, the telephone, railroads, the automobile and movies overturned entire industries and ways of life. Millions left farms for cities. Global trade disrupted local economies. New fortunes appeared overnight, while old occupations disappeared. In this turmoil, frustration and anger found political pathways. The left turned to communism, the right to fascism. What followed were new mass movements, cultural upheavals and world war.

Do read the whole thing.  You can be a victim of these processes, or keep your wits about you.  The choice is yours.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-common-sense-of-fareed-zakaria.html/feed 17 93471 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/odysseus-notes.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=odysseus-notes Odysseus notes https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/963073505/0/marginalrevolution~Odysseus-notes.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/odysseus-notes.html#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:34:27 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93470 The subsection of the Georgi Gospodinov novel runs like this: The Shortest Novel About Odysseus After His Return Home One night, now old and flabby and starting to forget, he leaves his home secretly. He’s sick of everything, so he heads back one last time to see the places, women, and wonders he had once […]

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The Shortest Novel About Odysseus After His Return Home

One night, now old and flabby and starting to forget, he leaves his home secretly. He’s sick of everything, so he heads back one last time to see the places, women, and wonders he had once encountered. To go back again into his draimed memory to see how it had been and who he had been. Because thanks to the bitter irony of old age, he has begun to transform into the Nobody, the name he had once cleverly used when introducing himself to the Cyclops.

Telemachus finds him in the evening, collapsed by the boat, only a hundred yards from home, with no idea what he is doing there and where he had been heading.

They take him back to a house with some woman he no longer remembers.

The novel is Time Shelter, and the premise is that refuges are built for people with Alzheimer’s, reflecting life from past decades, for instance the 1960s.  But then people from the present start wanting to live in them.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/odysseus-notes.html/feed 13 93470 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/saturday-assorted-links-571.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saturday-assorted-links-571 Saturday assorted links https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/963043085/0/marginalrevolution~Saturday-assorted-links.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/saturday-assorted-links-571.html#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:38:10 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93465 1. The 1991 Project’s oral history collection (led by Shreyas Narla and Shruti) with ~50 hours of interviews with policy reformers and witnesses to India’s market  liberalization, is now available. 2. Mini Cities. 3. The new Claude, on Mondrian. 4. More on cybersecurity and cyberdefense.  And Simon Willison on The Incident.  And early AI fears were not about LLMs, […]

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]]> 1. The 1991 Project’s oral history collection (led by Shreyas Narla and Shruti) with ~50 hours of interviews with policy reformers and witnesses to India’s market  liberalization, is now available.

2. Mini Cities.

3. The new Claude, on Mondrian.

4. More on cybersecurity and cyberdefense.  And Simon Willison on The Incident.  And early AI fears were not about LLMs, and that makes a big difference.

5. Critique of the new 76ers.

6. Anthropic economic research futures allocating $200 million to RCTs.

7. Interview with Emily Wilson.  Excellent piece, many of you underrate her.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/saturday-assorted-links-571.html/feed 40 93465 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/a-natural-experiment-in-economics.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-natural-experiment-in-economics A natural experiment in economics https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962854127/0/marginalrevolution~A-natural-experiment-in-economics.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/a-natural-experiment-in-economics.html#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:02:26 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93466 To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025 of a “blacklist” of words flagged by the U.S. government. We find that the release of this list led to a sharp reduction in the use of these flagged words among economists at universities that […]

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To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025 of a “blacklist” of words flagged by the U.S. government. We find that the release of this list led to a sharp reduction in the use of these flagged words among economists at universities that rely heavily on federal funding, relative to scholars from institutions that are less dependent on federal funding or based in the UK. The drop is driven by content related to gender, race, and environment. We show that changes are not simply semantic but reflect actual paper content and that neither the individual funding status nor time-invariant author characteristics are driving the effects. We also document interesting heterogeneous effects by department quality and author gender and ethnicity. Our findings are consistent with the idea that scholars respond strongly to political pressure.

That is from a new paper by Dominic Rohner, Oliver Vanden Eynde, and Philine Widmer.  I should note that the authors frame their results in terms of “Science under threat,” which indeed is in the title of their paper.  I do see some of that in operation, but I also see a lot of “removing incentives for pandering.”  Your own weights here may vary.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/a-natural-experiment-in-economics.html/feed 52 93466 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/crypto-markets-in-everything.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crypto-markets-in-everything Crypto markets in everything? (moo) https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962847446/0/marginalrevolution~Crypto-markets-in-everything-moo.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/crypto-markets-in-everything.html#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:40:55 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93469 Farmers in Parana, Brazil, struggling to get banks to loan them cash, became the first to tokenize livestock and place 10 dairy milk cows’ tokens for trade on the country’s B3 national stock exchange. They generated nearly $20,000 in credit backed by their cattle, signaling the potential of tokenizing RWAs as a financing tool. The […]

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Farmers in Parana, Brazil, struggling to get banks to loan them cash, became the first to tokenize livestock and place 10 dairy milk cows’ tokens for trade on the country’s B3 national stock exchange. They generated nearly $20,000 in credit backed by their cattle, signaling the potential of tokenizing RWAs as a financing tool.

The dairy cow tokenization in Brazil is a world first and serves as a test in a real-world scenario in which farmers are facing increasingly stringent lending limits imposed by local banks on small agricultural businesses.

“We take the cow, which is a real and tangible asset, and transform it into a digital asset backed by a unique code monitored in real time,” Thiago Martins of Cowmed, a Brazilian Agtec company, told CNNBrasil recently.

…“This digitization allows for formal registration with B3 as a movable asset,” Martins added. “The process is simple and gives the producer an advantageous opportunity to finance themselves, opening a new alternative for collateral at a time of strong credit restrictions in agribusiness.”

To turn cattle into trusted financial guarantees or collateral without requiring inspectors to visit the property, Cowmed equips cows with an AI-powered Smarty Collar. These collars constantly monitor health, behavior, and location. The raw data is then converted into an encrypted digital identity tied directly to the B3 credit agreement.

Continuous tracking of cattle prevents farmers from double-pledging the same cattle across multiple loans. It also includes built-in safeguards that allow the farmer to swap one dead cow for a live one.

Cowmed already tracks about 100,000 dairy cows across more than 1,000 farms. The herd is worth over $395 million. The company expects up to 20% of its network to adopt this tokenized financing model, unlocking $77.6 million in fresh credit for the agricultural sector.

Here is the full story.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/crypto-markets-in-everything.html/feed 23 93469 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-decision-the-sequel.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-decision-the-sequel The Decision, the sequel https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962703128/0/marginalrevolution~The-Decision-the-sequel.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-decision-the-sequel.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:34:26 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93467 Imagine your career were coming to a close, how would you want it to end?  By earning an especially large sum of money?  Publishing a final wonderful paper?  With an amazing act of mentorship? When it comes to Lebron, had he wanted to finish his career with the guys he enjoys playing with the most, […]

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When it comes to Lebron, had he wanted to finish his career with the guys he enjoys playing with the most, he would have opted for Golden State (Steph and Draymond).

If he had wanted to choose his favored organization, he would have signed with Miami.

Furthering the NBA prospects of his son Bronny, and having more time with family, would have meant staying in Los Angeles.

The hometown, sentimental choice would have been Cleveland.

As it turned out, he wanted to maximize his chances of winning a title, and with a team that did not just win a title (which rules out OKC, NYC).  That meant signing with Philadelphia. Which is what he did.

What will your final major career decision look like?

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-decision-the-sequel.html/feed 48 93467 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/friday-assorted-links-582.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-assorted-links-582 Friday assorted links https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962648852/0/marginalrevolution~Friday-assorted-links.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/friday-assorted-links-582.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:37:53 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93459 1. How global was “antiquity”? 2. Why the Clarity Act is mired in muck (NYT). 3. Jim Olds on the new science plan. 4. Cyber capabilities of Kimi 3? 5. “Following a standard workplace safety check, I have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the […]

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]]> 1. How global was “antiquity”?

2. Why the Clarity Act is mired in muck (NYT).

3. Jim Olds on the new science plan.

4. Cyber capabilities of Kimi 3?

5. “Following a standard workplace safety check, I have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the shelves in my office is described as “the unnecessary storing of combustible materials”.” Link here.

6. Are current science books for children demotivating?

7. Brazilian murder rate is down 40% from its 2017 peak.

8. Is the number of words we speak each day dropping by 300 each year?

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/friday-assorted-links-582.html/feed 50 93459 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/talk-therapy-is-speech.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talk-therapy-is-speech Talk Therapy is Speech https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962551355/0/marginalrevolution~Talk-Therapy-is-Speech.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/talk-therapy-is-speech.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:17:27 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93460 IJ: On Wednesday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a D.C. law that barred therapists from other jurisdictions from doing online teletherapy visits with clients in D.C. The decision comes nearly six years after Virginia-based counselor Elizabeth Brokamp teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit arguing the law violated the First Amendment. “This decision is […]

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IJ: On Wednesday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a D.C. law that barred therapists from other jurisdictions from doing online teletherapy visits with clients in D.C. The decision comes nearly six years after Virginia-based counselor Elizabeth Brokamp teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit arguing the law violated the First Amendment.

“This decision is a victory for anyone who speaks for a living,” said IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Robert McNamara. “Elizabeth’s victory here confirms that the First Amendment protects useful speech, including counseling, and that licensing boards can’t censor speech simply because someone doesn’t have their permission to talk.”

Congrats to the IJ! Now, we need to get rid of all the other bans on patients hiring physicians from other states. As I wrote last year:

During the pandemic, many restrictions on telemedicine were lifted, making it far easier for physicians to treat patients across state lines. That window has largely closed. Today, unless a doctor is separately licensed in a patient’s state—or the states have a formal agreement—remote care is often illegal. So if you live in Virginia and want a second opinion from a Mayo Clinic physician in Florida, you may have to fly to Florida, unless that Florida physician happens to hold a Virginia license.

The standard framing says this is a problem of physician licensing. That leads directly to calls for interstate compacts or federalizing medical licensure. Mutual recognition is good. Driver’s licenses are issued by states but are valid in every state. No one complains that Florida’s regime endangers Virginians. But mutual recognition or federal licensing is not the only solution nor the only way to think about this issue.

The real issue isn’t who licenses doctors. It’s that patients are forbidden from choosing a licensed doctor in another state. We can keep state-level licensing, but free the patient. Let any American consult any physician licensed in any state. That’s competitive federalism—no compacts, no federal agency, just patient choice.

Hat tip: Joel Selanikio.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/talk-therapy-is-speech.html/feed 32 93460 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/european-fact-of-the-day-again.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=european-fact-of-the-day-again European Fact of the Day, Again https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962551358/0/marginalrevolution~European-Fact-of-the-Day-Again.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/european-fact-of-the-day-again.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:15:10 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93461 This year, like last year, “the European Union will again make more money from fining US tech companies Than from the total tax income from Europe’s own public tech companies!”

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/european-fact-of-the-day-again.html/feed 74 93461 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-optimal-bayesian-update.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-optimal-bayesian-update The optimal Bayesian update? https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962475578/0/marginalrevolution~The-optimal-Bayesian-update.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-optimal-bayesian-update.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:52:36 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93462 I see at least three updates one might make from the recent OAI/Hugging Face hacking incident: 1. “This happened sooner than I expected, and the story is more dramatic than I expected,” therefore I am more worried than before. 2. “This happened, and the inferior Chinese cyber-defense seems to have performed just fine,” therefore I […]

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]]> I see at least three updates one might make from the recent OAI/Hugging Face hacking incident:

1. “This happened sooner than I expected, and the story is more dramatic than I expected,” therefore I am more worried than before.

2. “This happened, and the inferior Chinese cyber-defense seems to have performed just fine,” therefore I am less worried than before.

3. “This happened, and as far as we can tell, absolutely no one was harmed,” therefore I am less worried than before.

Obviously the net impact, from those bare hypotheses, is indeterminate.  And yet few people seem to be paying much heed to #2 or #3.  Joshua Saxe from the cyber world has some relevant observations.  And perhaps other updates are needed as well.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-optimal-bayesian-update.html/feed 57 93462 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/what-ive-been-reading-292.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-ive-been-reading-292 What I’ve been reading https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962446907/0/marginalrevolution~What-Ive-been-reading.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/what-ive-been-reading-292.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:19:03 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93427 1. Christopher Priest and Nina Allan, The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard.  Priest died before he finished this book, and his widow added material, including on Priest himself.  This is in any case a good overview and introduction to the strange worlds of Ballard.  There is only a UK edition […]

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]]> 1. Christopher Priest and Nina Allan, The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard.  Priest died before he finished this book, and his widow added material, including on Priest himself.  This is in any case a good overview and introduction to the strange worlds of Ballard.  There is only a UK edition so far.

2. Christian Kracht, Eurotrash, A Novel.  I was put off by the title, but it turns out this is a fun and high-level short Swiss novel about driving around Switzerland with your semi-crazy eighty-year-old mother on a road trip.  It helps to have some knowledge of both Switzerland and broader German-language literature.

3. Walter Kempowski, Alles Umsonst.  From 2006, could this be the best German-language novel since Sebald?  It is about the pending doom from the Russian army approaching on East Prussia in 1945, and how the different characters deal with that, set on a German estate.  Applicable to many other real world situations as well.  There is an English-language translation, I am not sure how good it is.  In any case an important and very good work of fiction.

4. Lars Behrisch, Democracy’s Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe.  A good book about how the roots of semi-democratic decision-making are found in 16th century Europe, and stemmed from new needs to assemble various military and fiscal coalitions.  Looks at the problem more broadly, in geographic terms, than most comparable studies.

5. Katie Kitamura, Audition.  A fun short novel, full of mystery and suspense, good for those who like puzzles in their writing.

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]]> 1. Puffin spotted on the Dorset coast.

2. Anthropic chief economist on AI and unemployment.

3. Whales use different vowels when ships are around.

4. Oliver Kim on McNamara.

5. Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments.

6. Alexander Salter Substack on space economics.

7. New Google data and study on AI and the economy.

8. Does it matter if you don’t like the characters?

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/thursday-assorted-links-562.html/feed 63 93454 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/alex-tabarrok-on-the-economic-analysis-of-crime.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alex-tabarrok-on-the-economic-analysis-of-crime Alex Tabarrok on the Economic Analysis of Crime https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962099270/0/marginalrevolution~Alex-Tabarrok-on-the-Economic-Analysis-of-Crime.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/alex-tabarrok-on-the-economic-analysis-of-crime.html#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:20:42 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93442 I tell my Gary Becker story, why I like police more than prisons, how criminals are like children and more.

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]]> I tell my Gary Becker story, why I like police more than prisons, how criminals are like children and more.

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]]> https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/alex-tabarrok-on-the-economic-analysis-of-crime.html/feed 43 93442 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/what-should-i-ask-gita-gopinath.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-should-i-ask-gita-gopinath What should I ask Gita Gopinath? https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/962025476/0/marginalrevolution~What-should-I-ask-Gita-Gopinath.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/what-should-i-ask-gita-gopinath.html#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:18:33 +0000 https://marginalrevolution.com/?p=93448 Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her.  From Wikipedia: Gita Gopinath…is an Indian-American economist who is currently serving as the Gregory and Ania Coffey professor of Economics at Harvard University and previously served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 21 January 2022 to 31 August 2025. Before that she also served […]

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]]> Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her.  From Wikipedia:

Gita Gopinath…is an Indian-American economist who is currently serving as the Gregory and Ania Coffey professor of Economics at Harvard University and previously served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 21 January 2022 to 31 August 2025. Before that she also served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.

Here is Gita on scholar.google.com, she is an expert in international finance and exchange rates, and also international capital flows, among other topics.  Here is Gita on Twitter.  So what should I ask her?

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