In his recent book, Joseph Henrich argues Western culture exists because the Catholic Church got obsessed with incest. Here’s my in-depth review.

Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?

The state of the world from the elite point of view.

Is capitalist power built on social sabotage?

I crunch the numbers on oil-and-gas depletion in Alberta.

Here are the 10 most-read posts of the year.

I feel like it’s December 2020.

Here’s a recording of a talk that got zoom bombed.

When it comes to inflation, economists get it wrong. More than anything else, inflation is about income redistribution.

Here are some tricks for scraping the web with R and Python.

Does hierarchy mediate the growth of top incomes?