Jess Gill Etsi So you don't eat tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, peppers, oranges, lemons, bananas, chocolate, pepper, cinnamon, the list is almost endless 🤔 🤣

I don't think we should be screaming about civilization collapsing because wages might be 0.9% higher

Though Singapore's decline in out-of-pocket spending is happening more rapidly, America also used to be that way. In 1960, almost half of health spending was out-of-pocket!

New post: my response to Helen Andrews. An essay on why it's not feminisation to blame for illiberalism in public life, but a blank-slateist notion of feminity that drives the rules of the game, and the worse backlash that feminisation causes on the right. open.substack.com/pub/microfound…

For various reasons this is not strictly accurate— true directionally but not quite true in absolute terms.

"women are more harm-averse, equity-oriented, and prone to resolving conflict through social exclusion. As a result, shifting sex compositions can bring palpable cultural change." Cory Clark is one of the most insightful & courageous researchers today: researchgate.net/publication/39…

Education stagnation: Only 3 states have fully bounced back in both math and reading since the pandemic: Iowa, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Just 6 of 23 states beat 2019 math levels, and only 4 of 20 exceeded 2019 ELA levels. The recovery gap remains wide. Grateful for this

Maybe a very prosaic observation, but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I've underestimated it 'till now. In a recent interview, I was struck by the comment that so many of

A virtue of modern economics is the time spent being careful about models and data before normative reasoning is conducted. Many left-wing critics of economics reason too much from first principles, spending too little time on the positive questions economists obsess over.

🚨Breaking: Harvard University just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German

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"If human beings can dismiss academic arguments merely because they lead to politically unwelcome conclusions, what’s the point of having academic arguments about politically-charged subjects?" betonit.ai/p/the-anti-int…

None of these are relevant criticisms: 1) Economists have long held that there is almost always an aspect of voluntariness and an aspect of involuntariness in unemployment and that this is a matter of degree. Sometimes people choose to be unemployed or non-employed, sometimes

Yes, although for some individuals there is a biological basis for their gender dysphoria, for the overwhelming majority, transgenderism is a cultural fad.

This is one of the most important points about the decline in fertility, and one of the less well-known. Fewer young people, means less fluid intelligence, less disruptive innovation (the sort that completely changes the direction of future research).

Under appreciated about rise of the Greens is the biggest impact is likely (at least for now) less seats they win and more how policy & political debate has to shift in response. Farage’s parties had huge impact on centre of gravity long before becoming real contenders for power

Where is the correlation between Gaza coverage bias and changes in traffic? At best, this shows that "legacy media" is losing ground to social media and perhaps LLMs. Yet I see no link to Gaza.

Love it! I will add two more: Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism is strategy-proof for any public project problem: