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Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page

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Are Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon too powerful? Should they be broken up?

Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

Ivan Vendrov nothinghuman.substack.com

As for boosting growth, my number one recommendation would be much more high-skilled immigration. And then more low-skilled immigration to take care of their kids and help run their errands... I also would deregulate most of the American economy, starting with occupational licensing. I would however keep air pollution and climate change regulations... See more

Noah Smith • Interview: Tyler Cowen, economist and public intellectual

Twilight of the Media Elites

Antonio Garcia Martinez pullrequest.substack.com

JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon (“It’s a fraud”), Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger (“It’s rat poison”), and Paul Krugman of Princeton and the New York Times (“It’s evil”) were just the kind of “aging white men” whom Marc Andreessen dissed as dependably wrong about technology “almost 100 percent of the time.”

George Gilder • Life After Google

Productivity growth was much higher from, call it, the 1920s to the 1970s than it was from the 1970s until today. Generally speaking, the rate of technological change in the economy has been decelerating for the last four years, not accelerating.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Marc Andreessen - Making the Future

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children.5 Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.

Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Just as deregulation and the stripping away of publicly funded alternatives represent “freedom” for those with a junk product to peddle, and the slashing of the Environmental Protectional Agency’s enforcement budget means an oilman’s freedom to jack up the global temperature, the autodidact is free to be mobbed by infotainers.