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US Physician Blasts 'Lucrative System of For-Profit Medicine'

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Siting Bank Branches

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What Should You Work On?

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Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats

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Scarcity Truthers

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Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

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Bad behavior is almost always good politics (2021)

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Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics

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The Stroad

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A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009)

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Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

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Effective altruism is not effective

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How We Institutionalized Incompetence

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Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

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Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

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America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis

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Just Too Efficient

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I, Backpack

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Work on these things

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McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality

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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen

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The Future Is Not Retro

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Nearly a quarter of U.S. rural hospitals are on the brink of closure – report

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What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy

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The global trade in junk and trash

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The Problem With Happiness

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Stroads and Strails

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What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance

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Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

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Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)

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Repair is as important as innovation

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Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

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The Shirky Principle (2010)

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Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work (2015)

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Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive

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Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

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The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind

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Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it

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Show HN: Why the most popular ways to do good in careers aren’t best

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You're Gonna Need a License for That

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Why the Assholes Are Winning: Money Trumps All

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What is it like to be owned by Warren Buffett?

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Firm Inefficiency

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The problem isn’t piracy – it’s competition

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The Charitable-Industrial Complex

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The Way to Produce a Person

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Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk

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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 4 Notes Essay

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Lawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs

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Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy

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Commit logs from last night

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The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do

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The art of endless upgrading

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How real-world corruption works

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"Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand

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The Stroad

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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care

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The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence

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Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

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The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)

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How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys

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The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists

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If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity

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Repair and Remain (2022)

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