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What do different countries pay for Olympic gold medals?

Via Cremieux, and here is the related Wikipedia page. The post What do different countries pay for Olympic gold medals?

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My podcast with Peter Singer and Kasia de Lazari-Radek

Lots of fresh material and debate, they question me, lots of philosophy, here are the links.  And this is a

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Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan’s Industrial Revoluton

Japan’s growth miracle after World War II is well known but that was Japan’s second miracle. The first was perhaps

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Argentina fact of the day

La actividad económica creció 2,3% interanual en mayo de 2024 y 1,3% respecto de abri Here is the tweet, here

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Two headlines that make me wish more people studied the principles of economics

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Two headlines that make me wish more people studied the principles of economics Two headlines that make

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Six Beliefs I Have About Inflation

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

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The tourist culture that is Copenhagen

A new fee for Venice day trippers. A looming ban on vacation rentals in Barcelona. Restrictions on the sale of alcohol in

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Rent Control – Marginal REVOLUTION

Kholodilin offers a comprehensive review of the literature on rent control, some 206 papers, published and unpublished from 1967-2013. The

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Wednesday assorted links

1. Tibetan reincarnation sex appeal as a factor? 2. How much is infrastructure the main problem of northern England? 3.

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My excellent Conversation with Brian Winter

Here is the video, audio, and transcript.  Here is the episode summary: It’s not just the churrasco that made him