100,000 Glyphosate Lawsuits: Why Roundup Does Not Kill Your Weeds Like It Used To
I don’t like wasting time bending over and pulling out weeds, one by one. Much more efficient to go squirt squirt and eliminate lots of weeds at a time. But I realized in the past year that the Roundup I spritzed on the weeds in my mulch beds and sidewalk cracks just wasn’t killing them…
On implicit numéraire
Just a quick thought today. When we, economist or otherwise, talk about the opportunity cost of time, the most common default is an individual’s expected wage. This ends up becoming a sort of implicit numéraire, a unit of measurement and exchange that captures value of an individual’s time. Now, to be clear, this is a…
The Joke is on Humorless Brutalism
A good joke that went around this week: Some people (surely none of our regular readers) don’t know what “brutalism” is. Quick primer: Brutalist architecture is a mid-20th century style (1950s–1970s) defined by raw concrete, massive blocky forms, and structural transparency. It often features rough, unadorned surfaces. “Brutalist Architecture Is Divisive—Here’s Everything You Need to…
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