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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-10-28 Th
Things that went whizzing by that I want to note & remember... 1/

...First: Alice Evans sends us to the very good Arash Nekoei & Fabian Sinn: The Origin of the Gender Gap: it is a count of records from the Human Biographical Record, finding that throughout history—save for Egypt in antiquity—only about 10% of women as men have records... 2/

... coming down to us that grant them a place in Human Biographical Record entries, with no significant changes over the millennia. While the 1900s do show the highest female share of entries since the -2000s, the difference is not (yet) very large... 3/

...Arash Nekoei & Fabian Sinn: The Origin of the Gender Gap: ‘International differences in women’s status are striking. When and where did those differences first emerge?… Over the last 5,000 years… records show no long-run trend in women... 4/

LINK: <voxeu.org/article/origin…>

...Plus: A New York Times that has lost the ability to be in the truth-telling business even should it turn on a dime and decide that it wanted to be.

A friend observes: ‘The article linked under the phrase “citational justice,” by Victor Ray, does not argue for, or even... 5/

... mention, the idea of "refusing to acknowledge in footnotes the research of those who hold distasteful views.’ That was made up out of whole cloth by New York Times reporter Michael Powell (and perhaps Dorian Abbott). They lie because they can. And they don’t care that... 6/

... a few people catch them at it:

Michael Powell: When M.I.T. Asked Dorian Abbot to Speak, It Invited Criticism: ‘The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture this aut... 7/

LINK: <nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/…>

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One Audio: Claudia Goldin & Alice Evans: “Career & Family”: ‘Professor Claudia Goldin joins me to discuss “Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity”. Why do men dominate top jobs? Is this due to women’s choices or discrimination? Why are there more... 8/

... women in management in the USA than Europe? What would reduce the gender pay gap? And so much more. Book: <press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…> Professor Claudia Goldin: <scholar.harvard.edu/goldin>... 9/

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...Very Briefly Noted: Gérard Roland: János Kornai, 1928–2021: ‘Economics of socialism and transition: The life and work of János Kornai, 1928–2021. The great Hungarian economist János Kornai, who passed away in October 2021, was a pioneering analyst of shortages... 10/

...in socialist economies and the economics of transition to a market economy. This column outlines what made him one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century… <voxeu.org/article/j-nos-…> 11/

..., socialist economies and the economics of transition to aAmanda Marcotte: Colin Powell’s Legacy: How His Wmds Lie Led to Donald Trump’s Big Lie: ‘With one UN speech, Powell helped usher in the era of a GOP driven by lies and conspiracy theories… <salon.com/2021/10/19/col…> 12/

...John Markoff: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry<amazon.com/What-Dormouse-…>
Daniel Alpert: Inflation in the 21st Century: Taking Down the Inflationary Straw Man of the 1970s <cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.…>... 13/

...Noah Smith: Beware Shoveling Money at Overpriced Service Industries

Max Read: Maybe We Need a Moral Panic About Facebook : ‘Sorry, I mean Metaverse, Inc… 14/

...Andrei Frumusanu: Apple Announces M1 Pro & M1 Max: Giant New Arm SoCs with All-Out Performance: ‘The M1 Pro—laying the ground-work for what Apple calls no-compromise laptop SoCs…. We’re seeing a quite larger area of the SoC being taken... 15/

LINK: <anandtech.com/show/17019/app…>

...Jan Eeckhout, Christoph Hedtrich, & Roberto Pinheiro: Inequality Is an Urban Affair Due To New Tech: ‘The adoption of information technology… polarisation… via the displacement of routine cognitive jobs…. 200,000 firms in the US from 1…

LINK: <voxeu.org/article/inequa…> 16/

...Jörn-Steffen Pischke: Natural Experimenters: Nobel Laureates David Card, Joshua Angrist, & Guido Imbens: ‘The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, “for his empiric... LINK: <voxeu.org/article/natura…> 17/

...Dylan Patel: Intel Betting The Farm—Shrinking Business, Margins Down For Few Years, But Aggressively Investing $40B-$43B A Year And More With Subsidies: ‘Pat Gelsinger laid it all out on the table and stopped the charade. He was once a farm boy from rural Pennsylvania... 18/

... who moved out to Silicon Valley at the age of 18 to work at Intel. Now he has the keys to the company, and he’s betting the entire farm on its future technological dominance. It’s been very clear Intel will lose market share for at least the next couple of years… 19/

.... Intel finally learned their lesson. Instead of continuing to milk the cow, they realize it’s time to put the pedal to the metal…. Intel will be spending $25B-$28B in capital expenditure alone plus another ~$15B of R&D each year. This amount will be spent on... 20/

... additional fabs, process technologies R&D, improving the design, and other intellectual property. In just the last 8 months since Pat Gelsinger joined Intel, they have hired an additional 6,000 engineers…. Intel’s plan just feels insane to us. “5 nodes in 4 years.”... 21/

... After the firm struggled on the 14nm replacement for nearly a decade, to believe they can execute on this vision takes a whole lot of kool-aid. What we can believe is that Intel will spend a lot…. Executives and shareholders in firms like Applied Materials, Lam... 22/

... Research, KLA, ASML, and Tokyo Electron are likely cheering about Intel not backing down in the face of adversity. Pat will take the lower margins, but instead of figuring out how to cut costs like all prior leadership since and including Paul Otellini, he is... 23/

... willing to potentially light money on fire…. We are very skeptical this can be executed on. There’s no way to emphasize how difficult this will be, but it’s also the only path forward. Intel could follow the path of many other American goliaths such as IBM and... 24/

... General Electric. A slow slide to irrelevancy…. Pat Gelsinger and Intel are saying no to this…. We doubt 100% success from Intel, but we will leave it off with a quote from the man himself. “This is a tremendous period of time. We’re seizing the opportunity... 25/

.... Carpe Diem.” Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO…

Adam Tooze: Yale’s Grand Strategy Program: ‘A ripple went through the media recently following the resignation of Prof Beverly Gage from Yale’s Grand Strategy Program. I don’t have anything to add on that affair. I’ll just say... 26/

...that whilst at Yale, I taught pretty regularly on the program, alongside John Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Charlie Hill. Given my interests, you might have thought it would have been a natural fit. It wasn’t. An ideology of cultural conservatism was hardwired into the... 27/

...program and not just by the donors…
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