2026-07-22
Halina Bennet has a summer housing roundup at Slow Boring : Beyond the already-covered ROAD Act, California's Governor Newsom signed AB 179, replacing the state's notoriously fragmented affordable-housing financing with …
A forthcoming paper by Michael Hankinson, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Morris Davis surveyed roughly 1,700 residents of expensive areas and found that most people do have a price. Over 80 percent accepted at least…
Here at AGF, we tend to think investment in research and development, whether by governments through agencies like the National Institutes of Health or in private businesses and universities, is worth an awful lot. When …
This week I’m at the NBER Summer Institute , taking in lots of new work on the economics of science and innovation. Two of the papers being presented have already made appearances on this blog (one on idea diffusion , an…
I enjoyed reading a post by Witold Więcek on the Clinical Trials Abundance blog, titled ‘ Market shaping and trial design belong together ’. He explains why people interested in solving market shaping problems – such as …
If you were in the Northeast US last week, you probably got at least a noseful of Canadian wildfire smoke. We’ve written before about the extraordinarily high health costs of wildfires, but Zeke Hausfather makes a convin…