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Challenges for Online Lending Marketplaces
An Economist’s Starter Kit
Better Models for Education
Can Learning Change Your Mind?
Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications
Machine Learning for Economists: An Introduction
Consistency in Data Science
Research Is as Good as Its Reproducibility
Working Hours and Productivity in the United States
Software as an Institution
Russia Growth Diagnostics: Conclusions
Russia Growth Diagnostics (7): Market Structure and Competition
Russia Growth Diagnostics (6): Taxation and Laws
Russia Growth Diagnostics (5): Uncertainty
Russia Growth Diagnostics (4): Human Capital
Russia Growth Diagnostics (3): Finance
Growth Diagnostics in Russia (2): Introduction to Russia
Growth Diagnostics in Russia: Getting Started
Public Policies and Persistence of Institutions
Economic Convergence of US States in 1987-2014
Growth Diagnostics: A Crash Course
How Big Data Informs Economics
Government Resistance to Human Capital
Impact and Implementation of Evidence Based Policies
Marketing by Elon Musk
The United States of Europe
The French Connection
What If Germany Annexed Greece?
The Box of Economic Growth Theory
Markets and Behavioral Economics
Kaggle Challenges and the Value of Data Science
Reddit’s Big Brother Is Watching Your Menus
Best Time to Post? It’s Irrelevant
Shakespeare Or Death
Alibaba, The State
Twitter, Brevity, Innovation
Thinking Like Lee Kuan Yew
Not So Free Facebook
It’s a Wonderful Loan: Economics of P2P Lending
How Google Works: Unauthorized Edition
One to n: Market Size, Not Innovations
Boring Facts about Democracy
A Billion-Dollar Bill on the Sidewalk
Democracy and Struggle for Definition
Russian Government Needs Weak Ruble
Everybody else is doing it
Is the Ruble Undervalued?
Debt and Currencies: The Soviet Connections
After the Ruble, What Currency Falls Next?
A Brief History of Russian Debt
The Ruble, Russia, and the History of Twelve Devaluations
Amazon Monopoly Is Better than Free Market
Debt-hunt
Either–Or Thinking
How to Save Attention Misdirected to Foreign Direct Investments
Learning to Learn from Indonesia
On the Subjective Sense of Authority and Entitlement
Cameron, Ferguson, and Immigration
Don’t Listen to Jack Welch (Only His Best Part)
How Competition Destroys Confidence
Economics of Poor Governance
Free Cheese, not in the Mousetrap
Gallup Fall
The Source of Our Sources
Deskilling Attacks
Inflation-Hunt
Not Taking History Seriously
Solving Big Problems by Breaking Them Into Smaller Ones
Easily Imaginable Scenarios of the New Cold War
The New Cold War
When ROI Hits the Roof
Election Day that Decides Nothing
Making Informed Choices in the Complex World
Talent Shortage or Management Problems?
Nobel for the Evident
Die Each Day As If It Was Your Last
Doing Harm by Way of Habit
How to Define a Word
Not Reinventing Education
The number of firms and magic numbers
Learning obedience
Private sector and economic development
Ordinary government failures
Inequality, moral and immoral
Secret ballot and protest voting on Wikipedia
Mentions of terrorism in the Congress
The impact of the War on Terror
Terrorism and its mentions
Congress-speak
Real Limits to Growth
Bitcoin and virtual currencies
Getting things done: startup edition
The century of cinema
Pitfalls of rating systems
Answering questions already answered on Stack Exchange
Athletes vs. data scientists
Stack Exchange and reward for being on the top
NYT-speak continued
Top 1% on Stack Exchange, or inequality in Q&A markets
Unrestricted evil
Startups across countries
Investing and failures in startups
The cost of being in the top, or when Zipf’s law breaks
Changes in NYT-speak
Definitions of economics
Nontrivial Economics
Plough, Fertility, and Growth
Transition to Market in China
Transition from Planned Economy to Market
Unethical Economics
Translating Economics
Macroeconomics Models and Force of Habit
No-knowledge Land
Knowledge, Witches, and the Church
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