Alex Tabarrok

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Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and with Tyler Cowen a founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org.

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Mar 31, 2023

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A must-read thread.

Tweet Mar 31, 2023

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d7-72c9-4b51-8ea9-dcfd99c42765 And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the i

by John Burn-Murdoch

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Mar 28, 2023

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Excellent thread.

Tweet Mar 28, 2023

Remember when Amazon bought Whole Foods in 2017? Lina Khan warned the merger would expand Amazon's "fief." Yes. Amazon is a feudal lord in this worldview. As the Khan crew gets ready to rewrite the merger guidelines, let's look back at their predi

by Brian Albrecht

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Mar 15, 2023

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Great paper.

Paper Feb 28, 2023

Early pension withdrawal as stimulus

by Geoff Liu and 2 others

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Mar 14, 2023

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Good thread on fashion as price theory rather than preference theory.

Tweet Mar 13, 2023

🧵 1/ People wonder why clothing changed so much between the early 20th century and now...Or why people would ever dress "So formally" What people don't realize is how much lifestyles have changed in that time twitter.com/FromKulak/status/16353192876

by CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon)

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Mar 14, 2023

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Interesting thread on the politics of the matching algorithm.

Tweet Mar 13, 2023

As we countdown to Match Day, I want you to meet Dr. Kevin Jon Williams. For nearly 20 years, he fought for - and eventually won - a student-optimal matching algorithm. It’s one of the great stories of advocacy in Match history… and the NRMP refuse

by Bryan Carmody

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