Latest articles by Noah Smith
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Does your job create real value?
feature Many Americans no longer understand the results of their labor
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Which is better, altruism or greed? The answer is not as simple as you think.
feature They may actually be complementary
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How the New Classicals drank the Austrians' milkshake
feature How one school of economics co-opted the ideas of another
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Does trend-chasing explain financial markets?
feature Two researchers take an extremely simple (and effective!) approach to answering this question
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What the collapse of the Ming Dynasty can tell us about American decline
feature Everyone likes to compare the U.S. to Rome, but this 16th century superpower is a far more salient comparison
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Why cutting the government doesn't make it more efficient
feature A corporate explanation for why government cuts usually backfire
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Is ethnic diversity to blame for potholes?
feature It might be correlated with lower taxes and higher inequality, too
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Does America's survival mean that it's a resilient country?
feature Let's think about this question concretely
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This Japanese toilet should make Americans very worried
feature The fact that it's not a feature in the average American home does not bode well for the country's prosperity. Seriously.
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