Thursday assorted links


1. New Substack on Abundance.

2. Does AI mean the demands on labor go up?

3. This obituary has plenty of interesting information about South Africa’s nuclear program (NYT).

4. Mercatus 1991 fellowship on state-level Indian economic policy.

5. Legal framework for crypto is hitting some snags (NYT).

6. “I find that parental transfers account for 13 percentage points (27%) of young households’ homeownership…Finally, I show that children of wealthy parents strategically use the illiquidity of housing as a commitment device to encourage transfers, resulting in a preference for illiquidity.” Link here.

7. Another desertion from the very pessimistic camp on AI.

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