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marginal revolution read out: Rising concentration for economics awards
The post Rising concentration for economics awards covers a new NBER working paper finding that economics is the only field where prizewinning researchers have become more institutionally concentrated.
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Seroter's Daily Reading: Daily Reading List – October 5, 2026 (#881)
Seroter's reading list for October 5, 2026 covers AI agents as platform customers, conversational software's future, budget caps, agent memory and documentation, the A2A CLI, and leadership mindsets.
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marginal revolution read out: Monday assorted links
The post for Monday assorted links covers Jokic's no-look pass, questions on AI consciousness, prediction market bias, AI in PhD dissertations, and a Knausgaard documentary.
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Daily Briefing: October 5, 2026, evening
The briefing for 2026-10-05 evening covers fifty-six articles on AI agents and their security, Meta Muse VM escapes, Anthropic model welfare, surveillance and privacy, arXiv's AI slop limits, and Cloudflare's Birthday Week.
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marginal revolution read out: “Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness.”
The post “Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness.” features Sam Kriss’s critique of performed authenticity and the full 12 Questions for Sam Kriss interview, with its invented parable and Gordon Glasgow’s account of meeting Kriss.
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marginal revolution read out: The Greg Clark Symposium
The post for The Greg Clark Symposium covers Gregory Clark's manuscript on genetics and social mobility, the Econ Journal Watch symposium with its critics, and the nature-versus-nurture debate across nine links.
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marginal revolution read out: China fact of the day
The post China fact of the day covers Chinese demand for overseas surrogacy, the changing profile of intended parents, and the author's pointer to Eleanor Olcott's Financial Times reporting.
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Daily Briefing: October 5, 2026, morning
The briefing for 2026-10-05 covers ten articles on AI cheating and economic benefits, open source forks, the SMILE space mission, a Russian plague lab death, an FBI hacker detention, crime during Covid, and a historical theory of divergence.
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marginal revolution read out: Crime in Covid Times
The post Crime in Covid Times covers Jens Ludwig's behavioral economics explanation for pandemic-era homicide volatility and deaths of decision-making.
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Daily Briefing: October 4, 2026, evening
The briefing for 2026-10-04 covers seventeen articles on AI meeting tools and AI policy, Flock surveillance and robotaxis, Mars and particle physics, GNU Boot and Intel Xeon, crypto charter litigation, AM radio legislation, and cultural essays including an analysis of Frost's Mending Wall.
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marginal revolution read out: My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book
The post My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book covers the author's AI-directed blurb for Ethan Mollick's Coexistence and Ethan Mollick's remarks on the other blurbs.
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marginal revolution read out: Sunday assorted links
The post Sunday assorted links covers a new London play about Keynes, aphantasia and architecture, AI and jobs in Africa, Nussbaum on opera and liberalism, bipartisan energy permitting reform, teenage gun traffickers, and an Antikythera field trip.
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Daily Briefing: October 4, 2026, morning
The briefing for 2026-10-04 covers twelve articles on surveillance and digital sovereignty, quantum and biological science, a cancer research critique, elderly robotic care and marital sorting, critical theory, data pendulum cycles, an obituary, and a Doctor Who pitch.
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marginal revolution read out: Marital sorting by class and race
The post Marital sorting by class and race covers a recent American Economic Review paper on the role of residential segregation in marital sorting by class and race.
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marginal revolution read out: Do the elderly prefer robotic care?
The post Do the elderly prefer robotic care? covers a large Japanese survey finding that 65 percent of older adults prefer nursing homes using robots and ICT, with acceptance highest for mobility assistance and lowest for communication.
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marginal revolution read out: Saturday assorted links
Saturday assorted links covers rewarding failure, matrix algebra for robot AI, Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros, remote work and births, Living Science replication, and Garicano's messy jobs.
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marginal revolution read out: Florian Schneider, RIP
The post Florian Schneider, RIP pairs a brief memorial note with Tyler Cowen's essay on the achievements of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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marginal revolution read out: Words to live by?
The post 'Words to live by?' covers a quoted Economist passage on the scale and speed of American finance and the author's brief praise of it.
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Daily Briefing: October 3, 2026, morning
The briefing for 2026-10-03 covers thirteen articles on AI advances, corporate influence in education, surveillance and Meta penalties, developer tools, economics and finance, Stoic practice, and the political standing of the second Trump administration.
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Radio Open Source in Clips: AI Apocalypse?
AI Apocalypse? features Christopher Lydon in conversation with Ben Hurlbut about the alarm over artificial intelligence as a symptom of deeper failures in democratic governance and technological power.
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Seroter's Daily Reading: Daily Reading List – October 2, 2026 (#880)
Seroter's reading list for October 2 covers the React Native versus Flutter debate, Meta's enterprise trust problem, Spanner Omni and queues, AI agent SEO, AI coding review bottlenecks, Swift on the server, GKE startup boost, and more.
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Daily Briefing: October 2, 2026, evening
The briefing for 2026-10-02 covers fifty articles on AI and superintelligence, surveillance and Flock cameras, cybersecurity, corporate and product news, TechCrunch events, science and health, and several long essays on design, gaming, and history.
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Daily Briefing: October 2, 2026, morning
The briefing for 2026-10-02 covers eighteen articles on rogue AI agents and Senate testimony, Cloudflare Clef and AI-era software engineering, California's Kelvin wave and robotaxi law, Lyft and Oxygen Forensics, plus astronomy, Kindle, SID music, AI midwifery, and a Tim Ferriss simplicity episode.
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Seroter's Daily Reading: Daily Reading List – October 1, 2026 (#879)
Seroter's Daily Reading List for October 1, 2026 covers code review in the age of agents, AI memory, enterprise control planes for persistent agents, MCP-powered cloud tooling, AI cost routing, and new observability SLIs for AI-native systems.
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Daily Briefing: October 1, 2026, evening
The briefing for October 1, 2026, covers fifty-two articles on spaceflight and orbital infrastructure, AI agents and product safety, surveillance and cyber operations, student press freedom, consumer hardware, and science and nature.
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