Others

These are topics I really liked writing about, but that don’t fit neatly into any category.

Dev Econ

• Why Nations Fail: BAD!

• The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics

• Is the Nobel Prize 2024 bad?

• Democracy versus Capitalism

• What went wrong with Argentina?

• What is the Effective Altruism movement?

• Does foreign aid actually help?

• Colonialism

• Slavery

Labor Econ

• Artificial Intelligence and employment

• Does the minimum wage reduce employment?

• Immigrants: good or bad?

• Will robots take your job?

• The benefits of immigration

Economic Thought

• Do economists know anything about the economy?

• Is economics even scientific?

• Can economics do empirical work? (aka the 2021 Economics Nobel)

• Cause and effect in economics

Tech

• The Metaverse

• Twitter

• Is social media bad for teen mental health

• The economic impact of influencers

Other topics

• What the hell is going on with modern politics?

• Social trust: what is it, why do people have it, and why is it down?

• Freakonomics: BAD!

• Nudge: BAD!

• Hate the Game: GOOD!

• The economics of drug cartels

• Are financial markets efficient?

• How do companies work?

• Wealth inequality and nepo babies

• Haggling