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The Last Quarter Century

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Chess and the Flynn Effect

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Robin Hanson to Technophiles: Get Real

Meet Growthology

Podcasting is so 2005

The Bad Old Days of 1994

Tyler Cowen's Daily Miracle

Financial Crises and Real Growth

Does Comparative Advantage Stand in the Way of Perpetual Peace?

Growth Wisdom from Charles Kenny

Bioethics and Life Extension

Julian Simon Moment of the Day

The Demographic Transition

Robert Fogel Interview

War, Peace, and the Economic Gap

The Last Quarter Century

My Most Absurd Belief

EW's "New Classics" of Entertainment Technology

How Far Back Could You Go?

Chess and the Flynn Effect

Robin Hanson Watch

Ray Kurzweil Watch

Robin Hanson to Technophiles: Get Real

Meet Growthology

Podcasting is so 2005

The Bad Old Days of 1994

Tyler Cowen's Daily Miracle

Financial Crises and Real Growth

Does Comparative Advantage Stand in the Way of Perpetual Peace?

Growth Wisdom from Charles Kenny

Bioethics and Life Extension

Julian Simon Moment of the Day

The Demographic Transition

Robert Fogel Interview

War, Peace, and the Economic Gap

Globalization and Inequality

Optimistic Prognoses

Another Story to Watch

Major Economic Stories, Updated

A Middle-Class World

Tyler Cowen on Economic Turbulence

Pessimistic Bias: Economists Suffer Too

Outstanding Lecture

Spotted in a Fairfax Parking Lot

Growing into Freedom

Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

healthier humans

Was Herbert Spencer Reincarnated as Julian Simon?

Futurology

Anglosphere Challenge

Capitalism without Capital

Flynn Effect

Growth and Economic Literacy

Nanotechnology and the Economy

Nonlinear Thinking

Escalation of Income

All's Fair in Politics

Home Building Trends

Barbell Labor Market?

Improved Standard of Living

The Productivity Story, Continued

The Productivity Story

U.S. vs. Europe

Jobs, Progress, and Displacement

Who is Rich?

Unstable Information Economy

A Nation of Entrepreneurs?

Science vs. Social Security

Electric Liberation

Manufacturing Crisis?

Libertarian Manifesto

Comment of the Week, 2003-08-20

Income over Time

"Concentrated Poverty" Declines

Elastic Economy

Growth and Anti-Americanism

Growth in Flour

The Deficit Argument, II

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July 1, 2008

The Last Quarter Century



Brad DeLong writes, The true history of the U.S. since 1980, IMHO at least, is not Sean Wilentz's "Age of......MORE

June 24, 2008

My Most Absurd Belief



is that human nature has changed in the last few hundred years. If you could go back to 1708 and......MORE

June 23, 2008

EW's "New Classics" of Entertainment Technology



The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (I'm as big a fan as Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts) has a great......MORE

June 11, 2008

How Far Back Could You Go?



Following up on an earlier post about hypothetical travel back in time, Tyler Cowen writes, I don't think 1700 would......MORE

June 9, 2008

Chess and the Flynn Effect



I'm not a chess geek - I prefer games where people laugh. But I suspect that my many chess geek......MORE

June 3, 2008

Robin Hanson Watch



The IEEE Spectrum symposium that I mentioned in the previous post includes Robin's thoughts on The Economics of the Singularity.......MORE

June 3, 2008

Ray Kurzweil Watch



John Tierney writes, Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there......MORE

May 31, 2008

Robin Hanson to Technophiles: Get Real



I've often heard Robin Hanson called a "space cadet" or even a "replicant." So it's pretty dramatic to see him......MORE

May 30, 2008

Meet Growthology



I like the first two weeks of Growthology, the new blog by Tim Kane and Bob Litan. Highlights from what......MORE

March 5, 2008

Podcasting is so 2005



What delicious irony that Steve Marglin tries to argue against modernity--saying that we need more community and less stuff--in an......MORE

January 18, 2008

The Bad Old Days of 1994



If you're a nerd over 30, you'll probably laugh at this. If you're a younger nerd, you had to be......MORE

January 17, 2008

Tyler Cowen's Daily Miracle



He writes, Any single year there has been inflation, from one year to the next. From 1900 to 2008 there......MORE

January 16, 2008

Financial Crises and Real Growth



Alex Tabarrok writes, Forget the talk of recession. The world is about to enter a new era in which miracle......MORE

December 29, 2007

Does Comparative Advantage Stand in the Way of Perpetual Peace?



Arnold's got a "non-pacifist syllogism" to counter my "pacifist syllogism". I think all of Arnold's premises are wrong or misleading.......MORE

December 27, 2007

Growth Wisdom from Charles Kenny



First, on figuring out the causes of growth A linear framework rules out the possibility that the effect of a......MORE

December 3, 2007

Bioethics and Life Extension



Aubrey de Grey writes, The practical fact is that, of the three categories of death enumerated at the beginning of......MORE

November 15, 2007

Julian Simon Moment of the Day



The 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States lists death rates per 100,000 population. The 1951 Statistical Abstract of the......MORE

July 6, 2007

The Demographic Transition



Bryan writes, The puzzle of declining family size in the face of rising wealth remains. Since I'm currently steeped in......MORE

April 12, 2007

Robert Fogel Interview



An excerpt: we did not get really good control over the techniques for purifying drinking water until about World War......MORE

March 23, 2007

War, Peace, and the Economic Gap



This essay by James McCormick is difficult to summarize. Here is a taste: To summarize my argument then, (1) our......MORE


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