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Unconventional Indicators of National Aspiration
[[{“value”:”What are your top indicators of national aspiration? Percentage of GDP devoted to R&D would be a good conventional indicator. What about some unconventional indicators? My top five: 1) Top marginal tax rate 2) Space Program 3) Distance to travel to mother’s home 4) Tallest statue 5) Cultural exports On these, the US and India…
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Unconventional Indicators of National Aspiration
[[{“value”:”What are your top indicators of national aspiration? Percentage of GDP devoted to R&D would be a good conventional indicator. What about some unconventional indicators? My top five: 1) Top marginal tax rate 2) Space Program 3) Distance to travel to mother’s home 4) Tallest statue 5) Cultural exports On these, the US and India…
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Unconventional Indicators of National Aspiration
[[{“value”:”What are your top indicators of national aspiration? Percentage of GDP devoted to R&D would be a good conventional indicator. What about some unconventional indicators? My top five: 1) Top marginal tax rate 2) Space Program 3) Distance to travel to mother’s home 4) Tallest statue 5) Cultural exports On these, the US and India…
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Why are Top Scientists Leaving Harvard?
[[{“value”:”Harvard magazine has an excellent interview with three scientists, Michael Mina, Douglas Melton and Stuart Schreiber, all highly regarded in their fields of life sciences, who have recently left Harvard for the private sector. Why did they leave? Mina tells an incredible story of what happened during the pandemic. At the time Mina was a…
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UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024)
[[{“value”:”In the UK, more than half of crimes are estimated to be caused by alcohol consumption. From Yuri, here are 51 others, not mainly about the UK: “More countries have produced a nuclear bomb than mass-produced a jet engine.” The post UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.”}]] …
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UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024)
[[{“value”:”In the UK, more than half of crimes are estimated to be caused by alcohol consumption. From Yuri, here are 51 others, not mainly about the UK: “More countries have produced a nuclear bomb than mass-produced a jet engine.” The post UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.”}]] …
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UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024)
[[{“value”:”In the UK, more than half of crimes are estimated to be caused by alcohol consumption. From Yuri, here are 51 others, not mainly about the UK: “More countries have produced a nuclear bomb than mass-produced a jet engine.” The post UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.”}]] …
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*The Triumph of Politics*
[[{“value”:”The author is David A. Stockman, and the subtitle is Why the Reagan Revolution Failed. This is for me a re-read, all DOGErs and aspiring DOGErs should give this book an initial read, as it covers why the Reagan attempts to pare back government largely failed. Excerpt: But I hadn’t recoked that there would be…
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Is Indian food the world’s best?
[[{“value”:”From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming from my background as an economist. Interestingly, India’s culinary advantages can be traced to some good and some not-so-good aspects of Indian society. First, food supply chains here are typically very short. Trucking, refrigeration and…
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*The Triumph of Politics*
[[{“value”:”The author is David A. Stockman, and the subtitle is Why the Reagan Revolution Failed. This is for me a re-read, all DOGErs and aspiring DOGErs should give this book an initial read, as it covers why the Reagan attempts to pare back government largely failed. Excerpt: But I hadn’t recoked that there would be…