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For me, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok are the original “blog kings” — I have been a huge fan of their “Marginal Revolution” blog since 2006 — so why not share the love every Tuesday by featuring my favorite Cowen/Tabarrok … Continue reading →

What if southern Spain were still an Islamic emirate? On this day (25 November) in 1491, the Treaty of Granada was signed and ratified by Boabdil, the last sultan of the Emirate of Granada, and Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Castile, León, … Continue reading →

Or will Biden? See here: https://manifold.markets/BusinessLawProf/will-president-biden-release-by-dec In the meantime, it is worth noting that we were lied to about this the last time around (see here), but fwiw check out this report, via Forbes.

Oh, the irony! The self-described “progressive constitutionalist” Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet published his latest paper on court reform (without, alas, any sense of irony) the day after the re-election of Donald J. Trump!

Gino is the Harvard Business School professor accused of using fake data in her papers, including at least one purporting to show how to elicit honest behavior (see here, for example)! Earlier this week, Daniel Engber, a senior editor at … Continue reading →

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence Alas, I have no idea how I stumbled upon this particular Wikipedia entry, but Chesterton’s fence is the Smithian idea that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood, and the original … Continue reading →

Are college professors, lawyers, political pollsters, or opera singers examples of productive or unproductive labour? Does this distinction even make sense? See, for example, this short lecture by the imitable Tyler Cowen explaining Adam Smith’s classic distinction, via Marginal Revolution … Continue reading →