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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Maxwell Tabarrok writes Maximum Progress, a personal blog at maximum-progress.com about economics, science and philosophy. Since 2024, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Maxwell Tabarrok's posts on how tax cuts affect innovation and on printing-press parallels to AI. Commenters cite them as sources for their points; none explicitly praise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.
Most-linked posts?
- Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-03-16
- Congressional Insider Trading2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
- We Need Major, but Not FDA Reform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
- When Should Copyright Get Shorter?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-14
- Economics is a Field of Software Engineering. It should start acting like one2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-13
- The 2nd Demographic Transition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-03
- Four Futures for Cognitive Labor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-15
- Is the Great Stagnation Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-28
What Hacker News says?
All economic development initiatives face an uphill challenge if the underlying macro conditions aren't right. The solution for the UK, the EU and Canada is simple but politically anathema: cut taxes A 2018 study shows tax increases significantly reduce innovation. A 1% increase in the top marginal income tax rate leads to a 2% reduction in patents and inventors, while a similar increase in corporate taxes causes ev…
Comment linking /p/tax-cuts-and-innovation?r=2xrvu
on “UK's hardware talent is being wasted”Submitted Is air travel getting worse? as a story · 175 points
HN discussionIt was the other way around. See eg https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/the-printing-press-nfts-a... - "In 1843 alone 14,000 new works were published in Germany, close to the publication rate today in per capita terms." .. "Publishers knew that once a manuscript was out in public it could be cheaply copied by other printing press owners, so instead they sought out new manuscripts in pursuit of a first mover advantage…
Comment linking /p/the-printing-press-nfts-and-the-end-of-copyright
on “Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?”Submitted Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution? as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThe solution for Canada and the EU is simple but politically anathema: cut taxes A 2018 study shows tax increases significantly reduce innovation. A 1% increase in the top marginal income tax rate leads to a 2% reduction in patents and inventors, while a similar increase in corporate taxes causes even larger declines. The study is quite rigorous too: https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/tax-cuts-and-innovation?r...
Comment linking /p/tax-cuts-and-innovation?r=2xrvu
on “Canada, an Early A.I. Hub, Fights to Stay Relevant”Submitted End Mandatory Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid vs. Ambler as a story · 48 points
HN discussionYou're completely misunderstanding me. You don't have to be a frequent trader to make a lot of money insider trading, you do have to make very high confidence (i.e. risky) trades though. A single one of those will stand out, not the frequency. Unless you're a habitual options trader or something, such trades will instantly be a huge red flag. >The OP specified "members of the US Congress" as his group of interest. H…
Comment linking /p/congressional-insider-trading
on “A prediction market user made $436,000 betting on Maduro's downfall”Submitted Should Sports Betting Be Banned? as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Have Kept the American Empire? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Regulation Is Unsafe as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prices Are Bounties – By Maxwell Tabarrok as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the Great Stagnation Just a 'So-So' Stagnation? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metascience of the Vesuvius Challenge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Should Copyright Get Shorter? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surgery Works Well Without the FDA as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unions Are Trusts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 2nd Demographic Transition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude vs. GPT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Should Copyright Get Shorter? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of the Endangered Species Act? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 50 years of rising educational attainment, no gain in actual skills as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congressional Insider Trading Is it real? And can we use it to our advantage? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Economics is a Field of Software Engineering. It should start acting like one as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congressional Insider Trading as a story · 2 points
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