Browsing: Economy

Here is a new NBER working paper: As geopolitical tensions intensify, great powers often turn to trade policy to influence…

The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The…

JLL estimates $170bn of assets will require construction lending or permanent financing this year. Between now and 2029, however, global…

Short Version: it’s bad, even by the preferred metrics of protectionists. On July 23, US and Japanese trade negotiators reached…

1. Everything Kevin Kelly knows about self-publishing. 2. Technically Economics, new podcasts by Harvard economics graduate students. 3. Notes on…

Timothy Taylor, at Conversable Economist, had a post on August 13 titled “What Economic Ideas are True and Nontrivial?” He…

In this paper, we use ChatGPT outages to provide early evidence on whether investors rely on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)…

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Nate dive into expected…

In the 1960s and 1970s, a fashionable idea, at least among the Western intelligentsia, was the convergence between socialism (read:…

As I mentioned in my last post, Musa al-Gharbi argues that the post-2011 Awokening – that is, the rise of…