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Monday assorted links

1. What people get wrong about women’s rights (Alice Evans, The Economist). 2. The case against liberal interventionism. 3. More government by GPT (NYT). 4.

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Seems Plausible: Recession in 2026

Polymarket, using definition of 2 quarters of consecutive negative GDP growth OR NBER declaration. It was only 23% on February 27th, before the first strikes.

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Democracy continues

Here is a link. The post Democracy continues appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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Interpreting 2/27 in Basic IS-LM w/Exogenous Price Shock

From notes for PA854 (before AD-AS chapter), to be discussed tomorrow: Assume the price level is sticky in the short run with respect to aggregate

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Core PCE Instantaneous Inflation at 3.6% in January, Same in February?

Using the Cleveland Fed nowcast for February, y/y inflation will be 3%, instantaneous at 3.2%, 3.6% instantaneous using Goldman Sachs estimate based on today’s PPI

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Economic Theory Summer Camp

About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to

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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

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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?

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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

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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