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Seb Krier, Ricardian?

Here is the initial post. In the comments Michael Wiebe notes: “So progress per R&D dollar fell by 63%, even while progress per year doubled.”  File under: David Ricardo, underrated.…

The Paraguayan bank story

Despite its weaknesses, Paraguay’s young democracy was still able to deliver under stress. Its free, boisterous press was the first to sound the alarm about Peña’s shenanigans. The Central Bank’s…

Sunday assorted links

1. Among the Wagner fanatics. 2. Does AI instead commodify jobs? 3. The digital world is making Islam more diverse (The Economist). 4. “An affair with an economist exposed the…

What are the Best MR Posts?

From the Archives–written by ChatGPT. This ranking judges posts on reasoning, originality of framing, explanatory power, intellectual stimulation, timeliness, and how much they accomplish in their length. Originality includes an…

Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking | Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty with Nesrine Malik , produced by Frankie Tobi and Luke John Smith , the executive producers are Maz Ebtehaj, Kirsty Major and James Tindale

Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their kids and…