Tim Harford answers more of your crazy economics questions: Olly asks: What if your tax bill was discounted by the distance you lived from the centre of…
Artificial intelligence will impact most business activity in the economy. Some functions will be less impacted but even the lightly-affected companies will change.
The DI job market papers series is winding up, but two very good ones came out this week. First, I was a big fan of Sergio Puerto’s paper on how seed developers do not get the most out of the seeds they develop by failing to account for and cater to the heterogeneity of farmers.
What a week, eh. In the UK, the Covid inquiry is kicking into overdrive, with Matt Hancock in this week and Boris Johnson next week, leaving observers with the difficult task of distinguishing fact from… um… well, the other thing (at least, according to the other witnesses to the inquiry, and their reputations).
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Thanksgiving in the states (which probably means you won’t be reading this till Monday at the earliest), I’ll be grateful for sitting next to an impeccably polite economist reading and correcting a draft paper, which is taking every ounce of my self-discipline not to read over his shoulder (he’s doing it with paper and pencil, too; I have a student who uses a ReMarkable and she let me have a go on it today and I regret to inform you I will soon be spending money that should go on food or wine on one).