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Why crime will decline in (most of) Brazil

Why crime will decline in (most of) Brazil

The system, introduced in 2024, uses facial recognition to spot people wanted by police on São Paulo’s streets. It issues alerts and officers are dispatched to pick them up. The system can also locate...

July 17, 2026
The future belongs to AI maniacs

The future belongs to AI maniacs

That is the theme of my latest Free Press column, excerpt: An AI maniac is someone who is obsessed with working with the latest AI models. They try out new models as soon as they can, they spend hours...

July 17, 2026
Governing agentic AI

Governing agentic AI

From a new paper by Shruti Rajagopalan: AI agents now transact, publish, and act on external systems without contemporaneous human approval, creating new regulatory challenges. A growing literature ha...

July 16, 2026
Professionals on the Move – July 2026 – Part 2

Professionals on the Move – July 2026 – Part 2

Home > Firm Management Firm Management | July 16, 2026 Professionals on the Move – July 2026 – Part 2 Professionals on the Move is a periodic roundup of recent hiring, promotion, and other staff...

July 16, 2026
The Equal Pay Madness Just Got Madder

The Equal Pay Madness Just Got Madder

In my post Equality Act 2010 I discussed the UK’s absolutely insane wage policy: In short, supply and demand have been replaced by judges and labor boards with the authority to deem which jobs are “eq...

July 16, 2026
Wednesday assorted links

Wednesday assorted links

1. New Stephen Dubner talk show. 2. “Spain accelerates and already contributes 65% of the population growth in Europe” 3. Scott Alexander defends AI chip regulation.  If AI can be that powerful (which...

July 15, 2026
Sub-Saharan Africa facts of the day

Sub-Saharan Africa facts of the day

In aggregate its farmers are growing more cereals, such as maize (corn) and rice, than ever: nearly five times as much as in the 1960s, when many countries achieved independence. But most of those gai...

July 15, 2026
Toward a theory of uni-context

Toward a theory of uni-context

Here is a good dialogue between Derek Thompson and Agnes Callard, excerpt: Callard: In general, goodness is more context-dependent than badness. There isn’t really anything that’s good all the time fo...

July 15, 2026
Persistent Inequality in Publishing in Economics

Persistent Inequality in Publishing in Economics

This paper documents new facts about concentration in publishing in economics. First, the profession grows downward . The number of economists grew almost sixfold since 1990, but new entrants publish ...

July 13, 2026