Allison Schrager writes essays linking risk, the macro economy, markets and pensions to culture and everyday life, such as loneliness, intangible consumption and the meaning of safety. Readers get an economist's personal, opinionated take with examples drawn from news and her book Worth the Risk.
Website: https://allisonschrager.substack.com
Economist Bryan Caplan's newsletter offers sharp, opinionated essays on social science, power, immigration, and public intellectuals, often built around experiments and debates. Readers get original arguments with a clear point of view, plus guest replies and analysis of how commentators express contempt and sentiment.
Adam Tooze's newsletter curates and comments on daily links across economics, geopolitics and economic history, from tariffs and inflation to the AI boom's effect on the US current account. Each issue pairs current macro and market items with historical and intellectual-history threads and an art image.
Noah Smith's blog covers economics, AI, politics, and culture, including essays on film, AI progress, and political critique. Readers get long-form analysis mixing policy commentary with personal reflections on current events.
Data-driven explainers that put public policy numbers into context using charts and datasets, such as UK tax levers, pensions and the ages of world leaders. The author compiles her own data and shows how large each issue is relative to the whole.
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