Month: November 2023
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Sociology of NGDP Targeting
What’s the right sociological explanation for the wonky transpartisan takes that have become identity- and community-forming memes online? YIMBYism was maybe the first of these. NGDP targeting seems to be a more recent one. Is the internet just so vast and politics so polarizing that there’s an online community for…
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Towards a Theory of Decentralization
One force that drives centralization is comparative advantage. If I’m sufficiently good at making clothes, it might be mutually advantageous for me to focus on making clothes all day and to free up the person who’s good at making food to do that and the person who’s good at building…
Matthew Mandel 