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Why I’m not worried about AI job loss
We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
Feb 12
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GDP numbers in poor countries are usually fake
We need to be much more skeptical of official-seeming economic statistics
Jan 27
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A lot of population numbers are fake
Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?
Jan 21
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Why poor countries stopped catching up
The rise and fall of the Great Convergence
Jan 19
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The good luck of Nicolás Maduro
Why dictators need better retirement plans
Jan 7
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On getting robbed
(And finding the thief and getting my stuff back)
Dec 4, 2025
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The era of declining global poverty is over
Global economic development is hitting a wall
Nov 21, 2025
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Southern Italy is poor because of malaria
A plasmodial theory of divergent development
Nov 14, 2025
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