Consumer Surplus, by economist Sam Bowman, offers essays on policy reform, state capacity and economic growth, arguing that governments should copy competition-based fixes from markets rather than rely on reforming existing rules. The issues in the sample mix political-economy argument with promotion for the author's print magazine Works in Progress.
Website: https://www.sambowman.co
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.
A newsletter by a South African economic historian that combines archival research on the Cape Colony with commentary on economics, universities and AI. Each issue tells a story-driven, data-informed essay about South Africa's past and present.
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