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How to improve British procurement

Until two years ago, West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. The train tracks are

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Seven ways to avoid losing your job to AI

That is the theme of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: Principle five: Run experiments. This is a

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*Equality of Permission*

The subtitle is The Politics of Feasible Liberalism, and the author is Deirdre Nansen McCloskey.  The author wishes to argue

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The economics of unions – Marginal REVOLUTION

My best read of the evidence is that a union raises wages by around 7% for currently unionized employees. The

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What else is special about southeastern Michigan? (from my email)

Thanks for swinging by Southeastern Michigan. He are two things other things that this area continues to produce and export

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Christopher Nolan, Straussian?

When asked what secondary literature Nolan consulted in working on his epic magnum opus masterpiece, he said none. None save

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Early evidence on school smartphone bans and mental health

The word “early” is appropriate here and is to be stressed, nonetheless I am not surprised by these results, given

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Self-fulfilling misalignment? – Marginal REVOLUTION

From Anthropic: We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was

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Korean banana markets in everything

Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs? Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a

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The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party

We digitize and analyze the near-universe of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) membership records and link them to population