The Dangerous Economist
The Blog of Cyril Morong
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Primitive communism: Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong (plus Ruth Benedict on property rights)
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By Manvir Singh . He is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Excerpts: "It was on that first trip t...
Friday, August 28, 2026
AI is moderately heating up today’s economy while we wait for the likely bumpy rollout of productivity gains
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See How is AI influencing interest rates? Investment, productivity, prices, and more by Jeff Horwich of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnea...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
General Purpose Technologies like AI can increase productivity more than expected
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See The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock & Chad Syverso...
Monday, August 24, 2026
Whiskey taxes, revenue and voting by members of Congress in history
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See Revenue over reason: A case for home distilling by Ben Semark of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. After an excerpt from Semark...
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