Maximum Progress

Does Economics Flip-flop on the Minimum Wage?

Econ 101, 102, and the minimum wage

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One Battle After Another as Biden Era Centrism

Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is a paean to moderate leftism

Oct 8 • 

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August 2025

Should We Have Kept The American Empire?

Arguments Against Renouncing Empire

Aug 30 • 

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Is Air Travel Getting Worse?

More delays, fewer accidents, and lower prices

Aug 11 • 

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July 2025

AI Copyright Cases Will Shape the Future

OR: Intellectual Property isn't About Property

Jul 24 • 

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Notes On Northern Italy

Why Italy is less woke than Germany and other observations

Jul 10 • 

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June 2025

Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US?

And what, if anything, should be done?

Jun 27 • 

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The Puzzle of Historical Preservation

Pretty old buildings

Jun 13 • 

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May 2025

Evolutionary Models of Fertility

Fertility rates have been falling all around the world for decades.

May 30 • 

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How to Find Ancient Assyrian Cities Using Economics

The coolest trade econ paper I know

May 23 • 

Maxwell Tabarrok

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Post-Malthusian AI

And other ways around a superhuman bind

May 10 • 

Maxwell Tabarrok

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Kyle Harper on the Roman Industrial Revolution

Further evidence for the Printing Press Theory

May 1 • 

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