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Recently my attention was drawn to an article that said Washington, the state I grew up in, will no longer require aspiring lawyers to pass […]

Yves here. Many have explained why the big drug companies, despite wrapping themselves in R&D, are actually not that much in the business of innovation. […]

This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the […]

James J. Walsh, Thirteenth Greatest of the Century. Eccentric, published a long time ago, is not correct, but it is full of vitality and insight. […]

For all independent, production and unsupervised workers: Figure 1: Wisconsin average hourly wages for all private sector workers, in 2017M12$ (blue), for manufacturing and non-supervisory […]

1. A simple theory of US home prices. 2. To increase welfare in laboratory mice. 3. Irony as propaganda. 4. The most common South Asian […]

This is part of a three-part series.In the last two centuries, the world has seen great progress. People live longer, are richer and better educated, […]

Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United States—up from one in 20 workers in the 1950s. This is […]

The miracle of Japan’s growth after World War II is well known but that was Japan’s second miracle. The first was perhaps even more surprising. […]

The drugs of the future are in the animals of the past Sequencer Mag Black Holes: Not Destroyers but Defenders SciTech Daily New technology that […]