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Over the past decade, the excise rate per cigarette has tripled from 46c to $1.40. The excise now accounts for…
From a 2023 paper by Vojislav Maksimovic and Liu Yang: Using plant-level data from the Census Bureau, we show that…
Tom Wolfe once designated the 1970s as “The Me Decade”. It seems to me that this label better applies to…
For today’s post, further thoughts inspired by Barry Lam’s book Fewer Rules, Better People. When Lam puts forth arguments in favor…
Walmart & Amazon are looking into issuing their own stablecoins—cutting out banks, cards, and slow settlement. If laws like the…
Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers…
A great deal of blame for declining GDP has been placed on the impact of imports by the national conservative…
1. More economics-themed comedy coming to NYC. 2. Student assessment in the age of AI. 3. Amanda Feilding obituary (NYT):…
Or sooner, that is the topic of my latest essay for The Free Press. Excerpt: The most radical redefinition of…
So far the campaign is a major “win” for (non-LLM) AI, though that is not yet a story. There is…