- February 22, 2026
Gaurav Ahuja interviews me – Marginal REVOLUTION
I very much enjoyed this exchange, print only, here is the link. Excerpt: I was recently thinking about how much the bad weather in the
My excellent Conversation with Joe Studwell
COWEN: Does Africa have a manufacturing future? Is robotics coming, AI, possibly some reshoring? STUDWELL: Yes. I believe that Africa does have a manufacturing future. COWEN: But making what?
Minimum wage hikes and robots
This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure and novel plant-level data on
That Was Then/This is Now
Hat tip: Logan Dobson. The post That Was Then/This is Now appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link
Announced Job Layoffs Attributed to AI
In the Challenger, Gray and Christmas report for January is an interesting table, reporting the job losses attributed to each factor. Notice that in January,
Effective tax rates for billionaires
Here is the tweet, here is the source data. The post Effective tax rates for billionaires appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link
Import Trends: Output, Policy Uncertainty, and/or Tariffs
As i was producing some extra slides for my macro course, I generated this graph: Figure 1: Change in GDP (bold black line), change accounted
*You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition*
By Bryan Caplan, now on sale. From Bryan’s Substack: My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips
“Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Canada If It Does China Deal”
That’s a title of a Bloomberg article, coming right after the Trump (temporary?) retreat on Greenland related tariffs. Economic Policy Uncertainty is likely to stay
