EconForEverybody

The Economics of Building Things With AI

Experiments All The Way Down

8 hrs ago • Ashish Kulkarni

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Wandering and Wondering

Every year, roughly 10,000 Australians are stung by a Portuguese Man O’War. These stings are not lethal (best as I can tell), but they are decidedly far…

Feb 1 • Ashish Kulkarni

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January 2026

PlacementVal

What are evals, and how do you run them on the work that YOU do?

Jan 22 • Ashish Kulkarni

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Mark Knopfler, The Excellent Historian

Alex Tabbarok recently wrote a post about privateering, and ended it with this recommendation:

Jan 3 • Ashish Kulkarni

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Agency v Compliance in Education

... or why AI *Can* Improve Undergraduate Education, But Won't Just Yet

Jan 1 • Ashish Kulkarni

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December 2025

KnOT in My Backyard

One of the best things I did in 2025 was to help in creating a most magical community. Here's how we did it, and why

Dec 19, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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Moravec, Monkeys, Mirrors and Mind

Have you seen a computer play chess?

Dec 12, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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On Asking Great Questions

What connects Gorbachev, a small cup of ice-cream, and a conversation between two Dutchmen?

Dec 11, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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Slow Gold

“She is old enough, and foreign enough, and intelligent enough, to understand that Fashion (which lesser women view as if it were Gravity) was merely an…

Dec 9, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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On Thinking About Growth

I listened to a fascinating conversation between Dan Wang and Tyler Cowen yesterday evening.

Dec 8, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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Look Ma, No Rules!

Dean Ball tells us that his inclination “is always to create snowmass on the mountain top, and let the water flow, rather than impose a scheme of…

Dec 6, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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November 2025

Breakneck and Other Rivers: Two Must-Read Books on China

In the summer of 2020, the American government sent cash payments to households in the United States.

Nov 11, 2025 • Ashish Kulkarni

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