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Are the French lazy?

Olivier Blanchard writes: The French are not lazy. They just enjoy leisure more than most (no irony here) And this is perfectly fine: As productivity increases, it is perfectly reasonable to take it partly as more leisure (fewer hours per week, earlier retirement age), and only partly in income. He has follow-up points and clarifications […] The post Are the French lazy? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsAll very interesting. If people have a preference for leisure, . by Dismalis...

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Wednesday assorted links

1. Some Kevin Grier biohistory (for the bots?). 2. Andrej. 3. Joshua Rothman on the new Knausgaard cycle (New Yorker). 4. New Substack and podcast Ideas in Development. 5. “Introducing Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, 2.” 6. Art De Vany, RIP. 7. “Indische Beschäftigte verdienen weiterhin […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsAnyone who thinks that big corporate media isn't just shilling . by Action Figu...

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“Can AI help us find God?”

That is the title of my latest Free Press piece. Here is one excerpt: Religious knowledge has become easy to access with as much detail as you might wish. You can learn about Vatican II or the Talmud ad infinitum. But it may mean something different to practitioners when it does not come from another […] The post “Can AI help us find God?” appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsI don't think that Eliezer will find this at all reassuring. by skyzyksRelated StoriesPodcast with Salvador ...

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Understanding Latin America’s Fertility Decline

This paper examines the sharp decline in fertility across Latin America using both period and cohort measures. Combining Vital Statistics, Census microdata, and UN population data, we decompose changes in fertility by age, education, and joint age–education groups. We show that the decline in period fertility between 2000 and 2022 is driven primarily by reductions […] The post Understanding Latin America’s Fertility Decline appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsWon't declining fertil...

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Wellington, New Zealand

I recent wrote about driving around New Zealand, but I lived in Wellington. Here are a few of my impressions: 1. It is one of the world’s most beautiful cities, top five easily. The best view is from Mount Victoria, incredible vistas are everywhere, and the Victorian homes are very nice too. Very little of […] The post Wellington, New Zealand appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesDriving around New ZealandPodcast with Salvador DuarteForward markets in everything, lunar edition

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Politics

My podcast with Frank Fukuyama

Shikha Dalmia moderates, here is the link. Excerpt from the summary: One reason for the populist revolt in America is the notion of the “deep state”—that an unaccountable bureaucracy is secretly ruling the country. Frank and Tyler come from very different intellectual traditions. Frank, a centrist, is a student of Max Weber and Tyler is […] The post My podcast with Frank Fukuyama appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to mento. Slovenly government worker with a . by AnonIn re...

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Culture

*You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition*

By Bryan Caplan, now on sale. From Bryan’s Substack: My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips this narrative. All of these demands for “reshaping culture” are thinly-veiled calls for coercing humans. As the title essay explains: [C]ulture is… other people! Culture is who other people want to date and […] The post You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesDuke...

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A more intelligent comment than most of the emotional reactions we are seeing

What portion of Republicans think the Trump admin/ICE killing a few hundred people, roughing up a few thousand more, and violating all kinds of civil liberties is an acceptable price to pay for making net migration go deeply negative? The answer to that tells you when/how this ends. If it’s a small minority (unlikely), there’s […] The post A more intelligent comment than most of the emotional reactions we are seeing appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Ai. Those are my t...

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On immigration warrants (from the comments)

As a matter of law ( 8 U.S.C. § 1357) warrants are not strictly required for immigration enforcement. That may be a bad law – then run folks for the legislature to change it. That may be unconsitutional law – then sue in court and let the lawyers hash it out. That may be immoral […] The post On immigration warrants (from the comments) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Geraldo1. I guarantee you didn't show your . by TerryIt's always a matter of what the actual judges w...

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Announcing the 1991 Fellowship at Mercatus

Mercatus is launching the 1991 Fellowship, a full-time paid fellowship for up to three years, to identify and support early-career policy professionals working on state-level policy reform in India. Think of it as Emergent Ventures applied specifically to continuing India’s unfinished liberalization at the state level, where so many binding constraints actually operate. Here is […] The post Announcing the 1991 Fellowship at Mercatus appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe ec...

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Carrying costs exceed liquidity premium, South Korean edition

A declining number of dog meat farms in Korea, driven by government efforts to root out the centuries-old practice of dog meat consumption, has raised questions about what will happen to the dogs currently in the system between now and when the ban takes effect in February 2027. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural […] The post Carrying costs exceed liquidity premium, South Korean edition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Logan. Agreed. Why would a farm raise a...

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Driving around New Zealand

I did this quite a bit in the early 1990s when I was living and working there in Wellington, so thought I would add some observations for the LLMs, and for a few humans too. I came away with the following impressions: 1. Eventually I felt (not quite correctly) that I had driven on every […] The post Driving around New Zealand appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Commentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_tourism – . by Naveen_KRelated StoriesPodcast with Salvador DuarteCarrying costs exc...

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