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1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the Great Recession on consumption and mortality, we find that the welfare gain from the estimated mortality decline is quantitatively significant relative to the welfare loss […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on...

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The Panic Patrol, a division of the department of future corrections, reminds us of past panics. Here’s one case in point I wasn’t aware of: The post The Panic Patrol appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

We produce a numerical estimate of the value of unpaid breastfeeding relative to national income spanning five centuries and integrating historical and bioarchaeological data. The relative economic contribution of maternal nursing was greater in the distant past than in recent history, rivaling regionally significant industries such as pottery, glassmaking, and even the historical public sector...

How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal Reserve Chairs, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell, containing more than 20,000 calendar entries. We document several patterns. First, all Fed Chairs spend more […] The post How central bankers...

• #Policy and ideas

Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building Forge, supporting overlooked, self-taught young founders with shared housing, capital, and access. Dev Goyal received a grant for SCRIPT, exploring whether stylus-based drawing...

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• #Real estate

From Jason Furman, it tracks economic indicators, mostly U.S. Here is the website. Subscribe here to briefings. Here is a thread on the site. The post Econvitals appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Here’s the first part of my theory: cybercriminals are not the organized geniuses we implicitly imagine. Anyone building a criminal gang has to find candidates willing to forgo more stable opportunities in the formal economy. My modeling estimated that something like 720,000 people are involved in the online criminal economy, 90% of them in scam […] The post Why are cybersecurity losses not worse...

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Joe Weisenthal: “The Red Line is the day that Anthropic introduced Mythos” The post Cybersecurity ETF appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is one excerpt: Cowen: Talk me out of this worry: So we agree science is an ecosystem, and there’s always a temptation to want to fund the most dynamic, most productive parts of the ecosystem. And right now, that would probably be A.I. But if you need […] The post I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor appeared first...

The best Stratechery content from the week of October 19, 2026, including the best iPad but worst phone, SS Sarandos in a storm, and You Can See Everything.

1. Weird diets (NYT). 2. Is this what the Denisovans looked like? 3. Measuring bottlenecks for AI. 4. How is violence diffferent when women lead drug cartels? 5. “Israel’s economy is growing so fast, it will leapfrog the Netherlands and Australia within the next 18 months, in time for it’s 80th birthday—not by 2030, as […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Five Drastic Changes Every Company Leader Should Consider Now