Economist @Mercatus Center @GeorgeMasonU. Fellow @nyulaw. Emergent Ventures India. Host @ideasofindia Podcast. Constitutional Economics & Public Choice. Dogs.
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Very sad to read this. Posner was one of the greats, with an enormous influence on modern day jurisprudence. I still have my marked up law and economics textbook and case book by him. RIP.
We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
Read more about his legacy: buff.ly/e3c3WdL
ALT In loving memory of Richard Posner 1939-2026
RT @rahulsagar: A significant update to Ideas of India is in the works. It now indexes over 500 periodicals. How does this look?
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My excellent Conversation with Terry Tao: conversationswithtyler.com/e…, and not just about AI.
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Leaving aside Lyman's claims about bednets (which seem like they've already been revised down) but @JustinSandefur, @externalidades, and I spend our days trying to use philanthropy to help boost GDP in poor countries on @coeff_giving's Global Growth Fund:
coefficientgiving.org/funds/…
GiveWell overestimates the effect of bednets on mortality by probably 5 times.
This size of error isn't even uncommon for EA-influenced assessments.
Once you understand how small the effect of aid is, other things look better by comparison.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The author later corrected his claim to 1.6-3x.
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I reflect on what’s left of habeas corpus in London, Ladakh & Louisiana, & of personal liberty when the state finds new, egregious ways to detain you (unmarked buses!) MUCH, much thanks to @RMLLowe & Henry Oliver for supporting this, & @srajagopalan, as always, for ideas & advice
we're proud to publish an important piece about habeas corpus by the brilliant @shreyasnarla on the pursuit of liberalism today
pursuitofliberalism.com/p/ho…
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I wrote this piece today to share the tech, AI, and operational excellence needed to deliver clean air across all Blue Tokai cafes in India. Thanks to Matt, Shivam, Chris and the entire BT team for trusting Praan and me.
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How Currencies Have Come and Gone: 1850-2026
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@archgen_ is building skyscrapers for semiconductor chips
Shrinking transistors is getting harder. Stacking them makes heat harder to manage. We’re building the tools to design chips in three dimensions.
We stack transistors vertically, shorten connections, and optimize timing and heat together.
Our foundational model for thermal simulation, predicts temperature roughly 5,000× faster than conventional EDA tools.
Our placement engine ranked #1 in HRT’s macro-placement challenge
We’re working with some of the largest fabs in the world to tape out our first chip in April 2027
archgenlabs.com
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New DDL project -> Help us crowdsource India's economic history!
We're making a complete collection of India's district handbooks c.1951–2011, digitizing ALL the tables, harmonizing districts, variables, villages over time.
You can help! 🧵👇
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🚨 New post on Kerala's Paddy Land Regulations.
A common misconception is conflating paddy lands (agricultural farms) with wetlands (natural ecosystems).
These are two separate categories and need to be distinguished. Protect one, free the other!
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Hope you checked our latest episode? Recommended for the festival weekend :)
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I loved chatting with @srajagopalan about my job market paper on the @ideasofindia podcast! 🎙️✨ Thank you so much for having me!
And do check out the other excellent episodes featuring this year’s JMCs! 🎧
The latest episode of the job market series of @ideasofindia @mercatus features Merve Demirel @Stockholm_Uni. We talked about measuring the nonfinancial costs of migrating for education, why it is costlier or women, and her RCT on how mentorship can help students access better opportunities.
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In the latest episode of the 2026 Ideas of India job market series, Shruti Rajagopalan (@srajagopalan) speaks with economics doctoral candidate Merve Demirel of @Stockholm_Uni about the nonfinancial costs of migrating for higher education in India, why students prefer colleges closer to home despite greater opportunities elsewhere, the gender differences in migration decisions, and how peer mentorship influences students’ educational choices.
Check out the full conversation:
mercatus.org/ideasofindia/me…
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The 1931 Census of India, finally in spreadsheets.
Shivakumar Jolad and Gaurav Kalyani digitised its tables down to districts, towns and castes, with the original pages to check every number. Free.
Dataset: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGUBHK
Subscribe: assistweekly.org
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My colleague @VinayakD has put together a really cool (and representative) dashboard for Delhi’s bad air. It is comprehensive and scrapes data from multiple sources to understand meteorological conditions and source of pollution. hindustantimes.com/breathe
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History holds many lessons for us—but we have to know it thoroughly first.
Will & Ariel Durant took one for the team!
@pranaykotas dips into their great book, The Lessons of History, for @srajagopalan & me in ep 15 of Watching the Wheels: youtube.com/watch?v=7e43qu1v…
Mad insights!
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In a civilization that has valued meditation and maun for centuries, we have become surprisingly immune to the hazards of noise pollution.
As Rohini writes in @Livemint, the state alone cannot enforce acoustic boundaries -- we need behavioural nudges and a true citizen movement for a quieter India.
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I am sad that so much of the underlying evidence in this report was redacted. I think evidence transparency is very important for the world to figure this out in time. planned-obsolescence.org/p/e…
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I had a great time talking about one of my favorite books, Gulliver's Travels, on its 300th anniversary with my @mercatus colleague Henry Oliver for his Common Reader Substack and podcast.
youtu.be/xJICd5lOHXw?is=O7cA…