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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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Feb 25, 2023

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Good book on this

Book Nov 1, 1995

The Economic Laws of Scientific Research

by Terence Kealey

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Feb 21, 2023

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Excellent thread. Solow model conflicts with some historical intuitions about wealth creation.

Tweet Feb 21, 2023

Past national prosperity predicts future national prosperity--- but is correlation causation? Not if the Solow model and its cousins are correct when they teach this truth: Nation's can't get permanently rich from past wealth, whether that wealth

by Garett Jones

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Feb 19, 2023

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Good thread. The Chinese education system is even more politically correct than ours only the politics differs.

Tweet Feb 18, 2023

Ok I guess it's time to do this. Lets goooooo "China is not PC, they're busy doing STEM" This is, unmitigated bullshit and I say this as someone who has been through the entire Chinese education system- not just a few years as a child and the rest

by Naomi Wu

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Feb 17, 2023

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Good thread on difficult to see but dangerous centralization. Difficult to solve since the technology comes with advantages. Truly anonymous digital money one of the few solutions.

Tweet Feb 16, 2023

1/ On Taxis Or how the world is centralizing all around you, but why you, fellow citizen, have probably not thought about it at all. (NYC, 2007 below) twitter.com/punk6529/status/1626299802156769280/photo/1

by 6529

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Feb 2, 2023

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Very nice post arguing against the (sophisticated) defenders of the Jones Act. Jones Act doesn't subsidize a defense externality but instead cements in place monopoly. Partially self-recommending.

Article Feb 1, 2023

The Jones Act Doesn't Work Like You Think

by Maxwell Tabarrok

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Jan 31, 2023

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The first five minutes of @TheLastofUsHBO are terrifying and absolutely correct. Good post on the dangers of climate change and fungi from @ConnorTabarrok

Article Jun 24, 2021

Mushrooms, Global Warming, and the next Pandemic

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok · Jan 25, 2023

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Anything by @DalrympleWill is a must read. The Anarchy on East India Company Return of a King on first Anglo-Afghan War Last Mughal on the India mutiny

Book Sep 10, 2019

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple (historian)

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