Stories by paulpauper

Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?

Contra the Dourado-Tainter Story

A Map to 'The Honest Broker'

Is There a Child Penalty in the Long Run?

A short history of exodus in the Middle East

Faraday Future's stock continues its rally

Links to Consider, 5/17

Caring Isn't Enough

For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle

What State Housing Policies Do Voters Want? Evidence from a Platform Experiment

Reddit shares surge as it strikes content deal with OpenAI

GPT-4o My and Google I/O Day

New drug Retatrutide outshines Ozempic and helps people lose quarter of weight

New 'Godzilla' weight loss jab is even better than Ozempic, study suggests

AI #64: Feel the Mundane Utility

Bad Arguments Against Funded Desertion

AI-balloon pops, Pasteur fights H5N1 in cattle

Thoughts on Dopamine Culture

How to Win the Hermès Game

Fat or Thin, We Are Not Meant to Feel Good About Ourselves All the Time