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June 16, 2025June 22, 2025Blog

Shouldn’t productivity improvements reduce GDP?

[Estimated time: 10 mins] I was chatting the other day with a friend about AI and economic growth. In the middle of […]

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025Book Summary

Book Summary: The New Map by Daniel Yergin

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My latest summary is for The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin, which explains how changes […]

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Book Summary

Book Summary: A Hacker’s Mind by Bruce Schneier

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This summary of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by security expert Bruce […]

March 12, 2025March 13, 2025Book Summary

Book Summary: Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein

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If, like me, you’ve been watching US politics recently and wondering how it got to be the way it is, you might […]

January 24, 2025January 29, 2025Blog

Can zero-sum games negate productivity gains?

[Estimated time: 10 mins] The unusually good pictures in this post were all drawn by my very talented friend James. You can […]

December 3, 2024December 6, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? by Eric Helland and Alex Tabarrok

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This summary of Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? Health, Education and the Baumol Effect seeks to explain why it seems […]

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024Book post

Criticisms of The Case Against Education (Pt 3 — Checking the Math)

Estimated reading time: 12 mins This is my final criticism post for Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. (Click here for my […]

September 23, 2024March 24, 2025Book post

Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 2 — Inflated Signalling Estimates)

Estimated reading time: 11 mins  This is the second of three posts criticising Bryan Caplan’s book, The Case Against Education (Click here […]

September 18, 2024October 3, 2024Book post

Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 1 — it’s The Case Against Higher Education)

Estimated reading time: 15 mins (or see my conclusion for the 1-min summary) This is the first of three posts criticising The […]

September 12, 2024October 3, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan

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I didn’t plan this, but my latest summary for The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time […]

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