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How a field fixes itself: the applied turn in economicsListen now (30 min) | Getting an academic field to change its ways is hard. Independent scientists can’t just go rogue - they need research funding, th…
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Jan 19CommentShare
How useful are learning curves, really?Listen now (23 min) | In economic models of “learning-by-doing,” technological progress is an incidental outcome of production: the more a firm or work…
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Jan 5Comment 3Share
On Collaborating with an AI, Writing, and InnovationListen now | Heads up: this week’s post is a bit different, in that it’s not built primarily from academic papers. We’ll be back to the normal format i…
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Dec 22, 2020CommentShare
How bad is publish-or-perish for the quality of science?Listen now (17 min) | How did we end up in a situation where so many scientific papers do not replicate? Replication isn’t the only thing that counts i…
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Dec 8, 2020CommentShare
How long does it take to go from science to technology?Listen now | An update on this project: I really enjoy writing this newsletter and have gotten good feedback on it. But it takes time (you may have not…
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Nov 24, 2020CommentShare
Importing KnowledgeListen now | When one country has exceptional expertise that another lacks, what happens when knowledge workers migrate from the one to the other?
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Aug 6, 2020CommentShare
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find Because of the Burden of Knowledge?Listen now (18 min) | Innovation appears to be getting harder. At least, that’s the conclusion of Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen, and Webb (2020). Across a h…
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Jun 11, 2020Comment 7Share
Is there a Price for a Covid-19 Vaccine?Listen now (18 min) | Note: I’m experimenting with Substack’s audio features. This week you can read the newsletter below, or listen to me read it by c…
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May 21, 2020Comment 1Share
Buterin, Hitzig, and Weyl's proposal to fund public goods
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May 14, 2020CommentShare
Stronger than you might think
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Apr 17, 2020CommentShare
They're more than half the point
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Apr 14, 2020CommentShare
Do conferences really help you network?
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Mar 26, 2020Comment 1Share
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