2026-04-24
There are a lot more loose vibes than specific predictions when it comes to AI’s economic impacts these days, which is why I was grateful to see Metaculus, Renaissance Philanthropy, and the Schultz Family Foundation coll…
As AI drives down the time & effort cost required to produce scientific grant proposals, funders are likely to be flooded with eligible, reasonable-seeming submissions that strain an already overburdened review system. I…
In the interest of getting our fair share of aesthetic controversy, we’ve been reading Zane Kasher’s job market paper on wind farm construction and the effect on local residents. While the paper focuses on implications f…
Our friends at the Centre for British Progress (with Labour Together) are out with a new paper on street votes —a mechanism that lets residents of a given street collectively hire an architect, agree on an upzoning plan,…
Vincent Rollet’s MIT job market paper on zoning and the dynamics of urban redevelopment — which won Best Student Paper at the 2025 European UEA meeting and lands him at Stanford and then UChicago — is getting attention f…
On a new episode of the Works in Progress podcast, Ruxandra Teslo, Ben Southwood and I chatted about everything you wanted to know about clinical trial reform — from why ethics reviews are so inefficient to how Australia…
Separately, Niko McCarty and I wrote a round-up of news you might have missed in biotech and medicine . For example, did you know that organ donations have become vastly more efficient because of improvements in preservi…