{"id":136,"date":"2026-01-26T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urosevic1.ddns.net\/blogs\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:38:13","slug":"marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urosevic1.ddns.net\/blogs\/marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/wp-content\/themes\/marginal-revolution\/assets\/images\/svg-logo.svg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9.60960960960961;width:604px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marginal Revolution is the blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. MR began in August of 2003 and&nbsp;there have been new posts daily since that time. In numerous reviews and ratings over the years Marginal Revolution has consistently been ranked as the best or one of the best economic blogs on the web, but it is more (and less) than that, also representing the quirks of its authors.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-dates has-authors has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/saturday-assorted-links-579.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=saturday-assorted-links-579' target=\"_blank\">Saturday assorted links<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-19T19:04:04+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">19. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">1. Critique of Villaroel on UAPs. 2. Bergen County (Korean) fact of the day. 3. AIs cracking superforecasting. 4. Gregor Benko, RIP (NYT). 5. Joshua Saxe on the increase in cyber risk. 6. Lichtenstein political infighting heats up (FT). 7. Risk, the biggie.\u00a0 And on the Suwalki gap. The post Saturday assorted links appeared first [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/the-age-of-wonders-and-terrors.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-age-of-wonders-and-terrors' target=\"_blank\">The Age of Wonders and Terrors<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-19T13:17:18+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">19. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Alex Tabarrok<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Scott Aaranson, theoretical computer scientist writes: My position on AI is merely the conservative, skeptical position of 2006, updated with intellectual honesty for the reality of late 2026. And that position, if you need me to spell it out, is as follows: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA It seems to me that the Singularity has already started; [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/internet-diffusion-and-religious-decline.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=internet-diffusion-and-religious-decline' target=\"_blank\">Internet diffusion and religious decline?<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-19T08:22:39+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">19. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Using a panel of 81 countries across six World Values Survey waves (1990\u20132022), we examine whether growth in internet diffusion is associated with religious decline. We construct a six-item composite religiosity index, align annual macro series to wave periods, and estimate country fixed-effects models with one-wave lags and a broad set of modernization, demographic, welfare-state, [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/emergent-ventures-india-19th-cohort.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=emergent-ventures-india-19th-cohort' target=\"_blank\">Emergent Ventures India, 19th cohort<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-19T06:22:09+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">19. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Asit Singh, founder of Syngi, received his grant to develop sub-angstrom optical MEMS sensors for next-generation semiconductor lithography. Rishabh received his grant to build a platform for real-time updates from Delhi courts, making judicial activity easier to track and understand. Hari and Naveen received their grant for Archgen AI, an agentic ecosystem connecting legacy EDA [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/scott-beaulier-interviews-me-in-part-about-wyoming.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=scott-beaulier-interviews-me-in-part-about-wyoming' target=\"_blank\">Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T20:10:55+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">18. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">The post Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/friday-assorted-links-591.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=friday-assorted-links-591' target=\"_blank\">Friday assorted links<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T17:39:23+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">18. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">1. Gender differences in financial information processing. 2. Urban harassment of women in India. 3. The making of Roger Scruton? 4. Astra vs. Enigma. 5. Coetzee on genocide. 6. Dan Ariely update.\u00a0 And running for office in Israel. 7. A more sober look at the HuggingFace incident (WSJ). 8. Cass Sunstein on AI regulation and [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/reimagining-research-papers-as-interactive-and-reliable-ai-agents.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reimagining-research-papers-as-interactive-and-reliable-ai-agents' target=\"_blank\">Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T09:07:11+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">18. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">That is a new Nature paper by Jiacheng Miao, Joe R. Davis, Yaohui Zhang, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and James Zou.\u00a0 Here goes: Here we introduce Paper2Agent, an automated framework that converts research papers into artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Paper2Agent transforms research output from passive artefacts into active systems that accelerate use and discovery. Conventional research [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/why-papua-new-guinea-is-so-interesting.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-papua-new-guinea-is-so-interesting' target=\"_blank\">Why Papua New Guinea is so interesting<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T06:50:51+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">18. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">And this leads to the most interesting part of this story: how the highlanders were so isolated for so long. I want to acknowledge that the highlanders were not completely, hermetically sealed off from the outside world \u2013 it\u2019s just that knowledge of outside world never actually made it to them or vice versa. Over [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/thursday-assorted-links-570.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thursday-assorted-links-570' target=\"_blank\">Thursday assorted links<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-17T17:54:05+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">17. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">1. An American at Brazil\u2019s largest rodeo. 2. Ingeborg Bachmann centenary. 3. \u201cHuawei Technologies Co. predicted on Wednesday that global computing demand will surge 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI agents generating over 90% of network traffic.\u201d\u00a0 And a report from someone who has done AI diplomacy with China (NYT). 4. \u201cUS Gov Federal Register use [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/pandemic-preparation-is-ai-safety.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pandemic-preparation-is-ai-safety' target=\"_blank\">Pandemic Preparation is AI Safety<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-17T13:17:01+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">17. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Alex Tabarrok<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">I am not a big fan of the \u201cnow more than ever\u201d post, which interprets recent events to support\u2014surprise!\u2014something the writer already believed. And yet\u2026is it not obvious that AI risk increases the value of pandemic preparation? If COVID began with a laboratory leak\u2014plausible, though unproven\u2014then a research accident has already killed millions. Whatever its [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/my-excellent-conversation-with-annie-lowrey.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-excellent-conversation-with-annie-lowrey' target=\"_blank\">My excellent Conversation with Annie Lowrey<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-17T10:20:16+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">17. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Here is the audio, video, and transcript.\u00a0 Here is the episode summary: Annie Lowrey\u2019s new book,\u00a0The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled \u2014 roughly fifty a year [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/the-correct-model-of-ai-ceo-behavior.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-correct-model-of-ai-ceo-behavior' target=\"_blank\">The correct model of AI CEO behavior<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-17T06:19:07+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">17. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">I agree with Alex that the standard model of regulatory capture does not apply here, but I think he neglects the best model we have.\u00a0 From my recent Free Press piece: Recently I have been reading my review copy of Kevin Roose\u2019s\u00a0excellent forthcoming book\u00a0The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/metr-ea-and-others-being-attacked.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=metr-ea-and-others-being-attacked' target=\"_blank\">METR, EA, and others being attacked<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-17T05:10:53+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">17. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Always focus on what you can learn from people and groups.\u00a0 Criticize in ways where you can learn something from the answer (or non-answer) and from the dialogue.\u00a0 If you attack how people look, their sex lives, their donors, whatever, it will make the critic stupider.\u00a0 It may not even hurt the target of the [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/wednesday-assorted-links-571.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wednesday-assorted-links-571' target=\"_blank\">Wednesday assorted links<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-16T18:30:58+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">16. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">1. Competitive market behavior with LLMs? 2. Prophets of the Marginal Revolution. 3. The university after AI. 4. Which African nations are spending on education? 5. @mattyglesias: \u201cIn an all-or-nothing scenario, bond interest rates would go to the moon. Why lend money at 5% (or whatever) if the two options are not being repaid and [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/09\/very-good-news.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=very-good-news' target=\"_blank\">Very good news<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-16T15:12:00+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">16. September 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Tyler Cowen<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Michael Kremer picked as World Bank chief economist (Bloomberg).\u00a0 Here are many many previous MR posts on Kremer, of course Alex also worked with him on Operation Warp Speed. The post Very good news appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marginal Revolution is the blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. MR began in August of 2003 and&nbsp;there have been new posts daily since that time. 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