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https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/01/unveiling-the-price-of-obscenity.html Does legitimating sinful activities have a cost? This paper examines the relationship between housing demand and overt prostitution in Amsterdam. In our empirical design, we exploit the spatial discontinuity…
When someone shares too-private information on Instagram in the search for likes. When someone does any kind of dance on TikTok. When someone excitedly joins a multi-level marketing scheme. When…
https://qr.ae/prpS1n 1) On my first adult trip to the U.S. I was in Orlando, Florida and the correct tip at the time was 10%. The waitress went ballistic at me,…
http://www.thevalue101.com/article.php?id=73604 有人說：一個人如何花錢，決定了一個人的人生。 也就是說，從一個人花錢上面，就能看出一個人的一生是什麼樣的。
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-chinese-quality-disease/ This is a very strange thing. In decades of exposure to Chinese people and in nearly 20 years of living in China, I still cannot understand this nor have…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/france-analysis-of-the-day.html Macron had promised to reduce state spending — then a record at more than 56 per cent of gross domestic product — by about 5 percentage points. Instead, under…
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/17/all-that-glitters-is-not-necessarily-russian-gold/ The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted. The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/buy-things-not-experiences.html A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/08/china-shows-its-trump-card/ In a world of chronic shortages China has realised that commodities hold more value than cash. The current trade war with China began at the very outset of the…
Here it is, one of the better written pieces of this (or last) year. It is mostly about China, manufacturing, and economic policy, but here is the part I will…