Evan Behrle on Desert and Economic Interdependence

Does it matter whether building more houses lowers prices not?

and the Costs of Environmental Land Use Regulation

Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs

Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes

Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii

Econ 101, 102, and the minimum wage

Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is a paean to moderate leftism

Arguments Against Renouncing Empire

More delays, fewer accidents, and lower prices

OR: Intellectual Property isn't About Property

Why Italy is less woke than Germany and other observations

And what, if anything, should be done?

Pretty old buildings

Fertility rates have been falling all around the world for decades.

The coolest trade econ paper I know

And other ways around a superhuman bind

Further evidence for the Printing Press Theory

American cities are dysfunctional.

Should we believe them?

Natural Disasters and Creative Destruction

Econ 101 Needs More Progress Studies

Stats and Advice

Plus: My 100th post and other blog updates

The Case for Colonialism is a 2017 article by political scientist Bruce Gilley.

And other responses to "AGI Will Not Make Labor Worthless"

Mostly Agreeing With Lyman Stone's hypothesis

The discovery and use of machinery may be … injurious to the labouring class, as some of their number will be thrown out of employment, and population will become redundant.

The underrated, overrated, top, and bottom posts of the year

My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience

In a now famous 2020 paper Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb document a puzzling trend: since 1940, research inputs have increased by 23-fold but productivity growth, which economists usually suppose is the output of research, has stayed constant or declined.

Simply deferring to market incentives would improve urban infrastructure and design.

But there are other good reasons to shake up the DOE

Don't Make the Peak Oil Mistake When Thinking About the Offense-Defense Balance

This is not advice

And they're not a good way to support the working class