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Should We Care About Replication?
Reflections on a recent debate
Feb 19
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Price controls cause chaos
Price controls are worse than you think
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Complementarities, Weak Links, AI, and Economic Growth
Using growth theory to discipline our thinking on AI and economic growth
Feb 5
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Josh Hendrickson
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Is Dave Ramsey right?
We all use heuristics
Jan 29
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Brian Albrecht
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What is Your Life Worth?
Price theory as a tool for pricing the priceless
Jan 22
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Josh Hendrickson
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Econ 101 is wrong about tariffs
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High tariffs didn't make the U.S. rich in the 19th century. They won't this time.
Apr 7, 2025
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Brian Albrecht
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What Price Theory Is And Is Not
Nov 13, 2025
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Josh Hendrickson
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And the 2025 Economics Nobel Goes to...
Oct 13, 2025
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The invisible hand screws up your regression
Dec 18, 2025
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Prices are signals (and politicians keep shooting the messenger)
Mar 6, 2025
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[Re-Post] Costs, Competition, and Prices that Don't Clear the Market
We at Economic Forces are big fans of supply and demand.
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Will AI Prove Piketty Right?
What the basics of growth theory say
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The Problem of Cooperation Costs
Potential cooperation as an explanation for underdevelopment, quantity-based responses to externalities, and punishments carried out by our criminal…
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Best of Economic Forces: 2025 Edition
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Dec 26, 2025
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Brian Albrecht
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The invisible hand screws up your regression
Markets, diff-in-diff, and "The Missing Intercept" problem
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Brian Albrecht
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Instacart's price discrimination isn't price discrimination
On the meaning of price discrimination
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GDP still wins
My latest piece at Vox
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