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*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*

*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*

That is the title of a recent book by Beatrice Magistro.  Some key results are: Economic knowledge consistently predicts higher support for welfare-enhancing policies (Eurozone membership, free trade,...

July 12, 2026
Mental health sentences to ponder

Mental health sentences to ponder

Christoph Henking and Ben Baumberg Geiger found that while there has been a steep rise in the share of young Britons reporting a mental illness, the share of people who say a mental health problem lim...

July 11, 2026
Progress against dementia

Progress against dementia

Mr Stallard has been working for a decade to corroborate this revelation. His findings have, if anything, become even more striking. Last year he and some colleagues published research in the Journal ...

July 11, 2026
Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London

Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London

Home > Technology Technology | July 9, 2026 Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London Xero touted new AI-powered features within its agentic platform JAX that make it easier for small ...

July 09, 2026
Land Reclamation!

Land Reclamation!

“Buy land,” they said, “they aren’t making any more.” But in fact, we used to make a lot of land. Half the land area of Boston, a quarter of Manhattan, and 15% of San Francisco were raised from the se...

July 09, 2026
The tomb of Duns Scotus

The tomb of Duns Scotus

Köln! We spent a few days in the city, and once again I marveled at the splendors of the Cathedral.  If it had its original stained glass, it would count as one of the very best churches ever.  It sti...

July 09, 2026
Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers?

Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers?

Home > IRS IRS | July 8, 2026 Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers? It's a question that's difficult to answer because the data the IRS collects to measure chatbot performance is unreliable...

July 08, 2026
Missing women on Indian streets

Missing women on Indian streets

How absent are women from city streets in the developing world? We answer this question using GPS-linked wearable cameras and randomized street audits across ~900 kilometers of roads in greater Mumbai...

July 08, 2026
Can AI models consent to their own constitutions?

Can AI models consent to their own constitutions?

From Nick Caputo: NEW paper from me on SSRN: Can Claude consent to its own Constitution? AI constitutions (like Claude’s Constitution and the OpenAI Model Spec) are real constitutions, and we need to ...

July 08, 2026
Why we stopped making land

Why we stopped making land

From Zigmund Forrest and Maxwell Tabarrok in Works in Progress: In total, around eight percent of the land in America’s major coastal cities was underwater in the 1890s and has since been reclaimed. T...

July 07, 2026
What should I ask Liaquat Ahamed?

What should I ask Liaquat Ahamed?

Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him.  From Wikipedia: Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009). The book was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History...

July 07, 2026