British social anthropology reconsidered| policytensor.substack.com
Are we a barbaric civilization?| policytensor.substack.com
I just finished reading Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd’s A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World. Anything by Todd is worth reading. I do not know of a scholar with a stronger nose for signal. In this particular book, they argue for the importance of a very interesting modernization signal. Specificall…| policytensor.substack.com
The catastrophic failure of the law of one price| Policy Tensor
A good friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, is one of the youngest staff engineers at Google.| Policy Tensor
Boundaries and Coherence of the Economics Discipline| policytensor.substack.com
Reintermediation is the only path forward for Democrats| policytensor.substack.com
No class gradient is a big win for democratic socialism| Policy Tensor
Why have firms been underinvesting since 1980?| policytensor.substack.com
Almost exactly one year ago, I argued on these pages that the CBO’s rate assumptions were far out. I pointed out that the CBO was assuming that the effective rate on outstanding federal debt would converge to 3.6 percent in a decade, which was then at the very upper end of the long-term range of the FOMC members. How far have we come in a single year. Now I am going to tell you that the CBO is being way too sanguine about its rate assumptions. And that this poses an existential risk to the ...| Policy Tensor
Wither the Mighty Dollar?| policytensor.substack.com
And how did we get here?| policytensor.substack.com
The global fallout of Liberation Day cannot be judged solely on the basis of the list of published tariffs.| Policy Tensor
Why does the Jewish state punch so far above its weight?| policytensor.substack.com
On the dangers of the GDP fetish| policytensor.substack.com
On the instability of a tripolar world| policytensor.substack.com
Sino-American relations are too important to bungle| policytensor.substack.com
Has the contrast ever been greater?| policytensor.substack.com
Debunking the net-flows paradigm| policytensor.substack.com
US equities are pricing a recession| policytensor.substack.com