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The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes

The Timeless Way of Building

The Florida Japan-handle Culture, Urbanism, History and Geology in Oahu, Hawaii

The Florida Japan-handle

Does Economics Flip-flop on the Minimum Wage? Econ 101, 102, and the minimum wage

Does Economics Flip-flop on the Minimum Wage?

One Battle After Another as Biden Centrism Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is a paean to moderate leftism

One Battle After Another as Biden Centrism

Should We Have Kept The American Empire? Arguments Against Renouncing Empire

Should We Have Kept The American Empire?

Is Air Travel Getting Worse? More delays, fewer accidents, and lower prices

Is Air Travel Getting Worse?

AI Copyright Cases Will Shape the Future OR: Intellectual Property isn't About Property

AI Copyright Cases Will Shape the Future

Notes On Northern Italy Why Italy is less woke than Germany and other observations

Notes On Northern Italy

Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US? And what, if anything, should be done?

Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US?

The Puzzle of Historical Preservation Pretty old buildings

The Puzzle of Historical Preservation

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

Evolutionary Models of Fertility

How to Find Ancient Assyrian Cities Using Economics The coolest trade econ paper I know

How to Find Ancient Assyrian Cities Using Economics

Post-Malthusian AI And other ways around a superhuman bind

Post-Malthusian AI

Kyle Harper on the Roman Industrial Revolution Further evidence for the Printing Press Theory

Kyle Harper on the Roman Industrial Revolution

Jane Jacobs Can Fix American Cities Even Though She Helped Break Them American cities are dysfunctional.

Jane Jacobs Can Fix American Cities Even Though She Helped Break Them

New Results on Fertility and Growth Should we believe them?

New Results on Fertility and Growth

Even Acts of God Can't Fix Permitting Anymore Natural Disasters and Creative Destruction

Even Acts of God Can't Fix Permitting Anymore

The Straussian Message of Abundance

The Straussian Message of Abundance

Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination Econ 101 Needs More Progress Studies

Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination

Grad School Applications Stats and Advice

Grad School Applications

Why Japan Succeeds Despite Stagnation Plus: My 100th post and other blog updates

Why Japan Succeeds Despite Stagnation

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

A Review of The Case for Colonialism

What About The Horses? And other responses to "AGI Will Not Make Labor Worthless"

What About The Horses?

Does Stagnant Male Income Explain Falling Fertility and Marriage? Mostly Agreeing With Lyman Stone's hypothesis

Does Stagnant Male Income Explain Falling Fertility and Marriage?

AGI Will Not Make Labor Worthless 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.

AGI Will Not Make Labor Worthless

Maximum Progress 2024 Review The underrated, overrated, top, and bottom posts of the year

Maximum Progress 2024 Review

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It

How much of "Ideas Getting Harder To Find" is due to declining researcher skill? 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.

How much of "Ideas Getting Harder To Find" is due to declining researcher skill?

Anti-car Urbanists Should Be More Pro-Market Simply deferring to market incentives would improve urban infrastructure and design.

Anti-car Urbanists Should Be More Pro-Market

Is The Great Stagnation Actually Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?

Is The Great Stagnation Actually Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?