Browsing: Economy

We estimate income and taxes for the wealthiest group of US households by matching Forbes 400 data to the individual,…

We document the extent to which workers in AI-exposed occupations can successfully retrain for AI-intensive work. We assemble a new…

I began my blogging career at TheMoneyIllusion in early 2009 and ended that blog last year.  In January 2014, I…

After almost 17 years of blogging at EconLog, I have decided to resign, effective today, and focus more on my…

1. Some economics of AI subscription pricing. 2. “Cat food made by Michelin star chef is on sale… and people…

Building on large-scale survey data and recent scholarship, we document persistent and, in many regions, increasing levels of religiosity…we analyze…

0:37Intro. [Recording date: July 28, 2025.]Russ Roberts: Today is July 28th, 2025, and my guest is Professor of English and…

Compensation for government jobs is higher relative to GDP per capita the poorer the country. In other words, government workers…

David Woodman, The First King of England: Aethelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom.  An excellent work.  One of the…

1. A defense of prediction markets. 2. Ezra on GPT-5 (NYT). 3. Is complex animal life much older than we…