Sitemap - 2024 - EconForEverybody

Why Tech Companies Are Worried About Power

India's Power Sector: An Introduction

A Tale of Our Cities

What the Fed Taketh Away, Claude Giveth Back

And all the roads that lead us there are winding

Its Everywhere, This Goodhart's Law

O What A Tangled Web We Weave

Krishnan on Coase and Cultures

The 2024 Nobel Prize

Hasan and Jandoc Strike Again

Chuck Jones - The Evolution of an Artist

A Superb Thread by The Great Paul Novosad

Norway is going Great Guns on EV

All About Firms

NotebookLM is an Amuse-Bouche

The First Draft Is The Thinking Draft

Writing With Canvas: A Collaborative Journey To Better Writing

Kyla Scanlon on Why We Don't Trust Each Other Anymore

WATTBA, The Captcha Edition

Complements, Substitutes and What's New in AI

Kyla Scanlon, Econ Prof

One I To Rule 'Em All!

Speeding on the Highway, Homework, and Goodhart's Law

Opportunity Costs and the Long Tail

25%

Unitree Robotics: The G1

China and Robots

In Which Garett Comes to Someshwarwadi (But Elinor Can't)

The Heresy of Recommending Rent Control

What Do You Mean by "General" Intelligence?

WATTBA: Gene That Spreads Cancer Through the Body Identified

Sludges and Meta

Mobiles and Cashew Nuts

Chatbots Are Going To Be Awesome For Teachers

Why Do Cockroaches Flip Over When They Die?

The WATTBA Series: AlphaFold3

Nothing Like Learning

In Which Jordan and Kohli Help Us Understand That Incentives Matter

The Five YO Trilemma

In Praise of Debates

Mark Zuckerberg Teaches Us the TMKK of Game Theory

The Quest for Peace

Ajay Shah on Inheritance Taxes in India

What If I'm Wrong, Among Other Things

Go brew a cuppa

How People Are Using GenAI

The Conversation About Inheritance Taxes that I Would Like to Have

Harmunia Mode.

Optimizing for Delight

What Are You Optimizing For, The MKBHD Edition

Bloomberg on America's Big Chipmaking Blunder

Inside The Funhouse Mirror Factory

Opting Out of Opt Ins

And Then There Were Three: War Over Taiwan is Inevitable

Recursively. That's The Only Change I'd Make.

Some Do Math, Some Plan To Write

Satte pe Satta

Can Noah Smith's Blogpost be Fed to Sora?

Michael Nielsen Recommends a Thread on Paul Erdős

Economists Do It In Tribes

Co-Intelligence: A Review

In Which AI and I help explain Philipp Strack's Work

Appendix B from "On the Conversational Persuasiveness of LLM's: An RCT"

A Fine Unbalance

Immune-Computer Interfaces

Will LLM's Collude?

A Good Doctor Cures the Patient...

Yamini Aiyar Asks a Question, and We Try to Answer

Scalars, Vectors, Incentive Design and McKinsey

What Did I Write, and What Did I Learn in March 2024?

Taking Photos With your Phone's Camera

Dinesh Thakur On The Wonderland That is Drug Pricing in India

What's Up With Consumption?

A Drop of Wine Goes a Long, Long Way

Top Down Impositions of Cultural Norms and China's Demography

Does The EMH Apply To The Market For Votes?

Signaling and Status

The Space Elevator

Buckle Up, Everybody

The Lawyer and The Secretary Travel To The Future

The Buzz Around Zomato

Onwards and Upwards

An Article, A Chart, A Blogpost, A Book and Some Thoughts

The Best Essay Has Quality

Your AI + Robotics Update for March 2024

Where will the next 1000 babies be born?

Two useful academic resources for Claude

On Making Teaching Interesting

Whether It Will Rain Tomorrow Or Not Is A Solved Question

Factory Girls, The Indian Edition

What Do Spreadsheets Teach Us About AI?

Dwarkesh Patel Interviews Demis Hassabis

Speaking of Dharamshala and Public Transport...

In Which Nilay Patel Optimizes For Having Fun

Notes from Dharamshala

India, Urbanization and Poverty

You Are Likely Writing Your Prompts Wrong

A Movie Review, A Question, and A Definition of Rationality

Veritasium on the Black Scholes Model

OK, Then

What Did I Write, and What Did I Learn in February 2024?

A Conversation with Pranay Kotasthane on Friday, 1st March 2024

XKCD on Goodhart's Law

We, The Citizens: A Review

Statistics, Cricket and Umpire's Call

Placements Ain't What They Used To Be...

File Over App

About Life Expectancy

Bob and Ronald Come to India, Part III

Bob and Ronald Come to India, Part II

Bob and Ronald Come to India, Part I

MKBHD on Sora

The Panama Canal, Explained

Sora

The Course of China's Rural Reform

All About Industrial Policy, Part 3

All About Industrial Policy, Part 2

All About Industrial Policy, Part 1

Jon Burn-Murdoch on the ideological divide between young men and women

Process Over Outcomes, Australian Cricket Edition

Can't, and Won't

Opportunity Costs and The Tragedy of Pluralism

Selection > Incentives

What Are South Koreans Optimizing For?

Institutions, Not Individuals

Google Lumiere: A Space Time Diffusion Model

The One and Only Sidin on our FY and The Date of Annunciation

Now Do Cricket!

What Did I Write, and What Did I Learn in January 2024?

EV's, China and Industrial Policy

On The Fiscal Position of Panchayati Raj Institutions

In Praise of Random Questions

Everything is a Remix

Chris Anderson on The Right Time To Enter the Market

Home, Expensive Home

How Might I Be Wrong?

KISS and Macroeconomics

Tim Harford on The Rights and Wrongs of Copying

On Greater Reflexivity in Economics

Those Little Back Dots on Your Windscreens

Fukushima, Japan, in Winter

Ben Casnocha in Tokyo

The Death of the Classroom, *NOT* the University

The Economist on AI and Transforming Education

Ethan Mollick on Leaping (And/Or Waiting)

A Chat At The Gokhale Institute with Sourya Banerjee, Samrudha Surana (and yours truly)

Vignesh Interviews Me on the ContraMinds Podcast

Brad Setser on China's December Data

On Pacing Yourself

Country Driving, by Peter Hessler: A Review

On True Roles

What Are You Optimizing For, Cartography Edition

Me? I’m the definition of Baloo

What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything, by Veritasium

Prof. Tarun Khaitan on Useful Tech Resources for Academicians

On Goodhart's Overhang

Mai Baap Sarkar, But It's Not What You Think

The Turing Interview

Incentives Matter, the Auto PLI Edition

Future 1, Economists 0