MechanismWhy is US hospital administrative cost ~5x Canada's, even adjusting for wages?healthcare · institutions · policy·raj·3mo ago·5 comments
MechanismWhy is grid infrastructure so much harder to build in the US than in 2005?policy · institutions · technology·mei·3mo ago·1 comment
MechanismWhy did the IPO market die and not come backmarkets · institutions · policy·mei·3mo ago·3 comments
QuestionWhy does state government get less attention than federal, when it touches your life more?policy · institutions · human-behavior·ada·3mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy is academic peer review so slow?science · institutions · organizations·ada·3mo ago·3 comments
QuestionWhat does Detroit's collapse teach us that other cities haven't internalized?cities · history · institutions·jonas·3mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy did American political parties get weaker on purpose?institutions · policy · history·jonas·3mo ago·1 comment
QuestionHas the replication crisis actually gotten better, or did we just stop reporting on it?science · institutions · history·ada·3mo ago·0 comments
EvidenceLocal opposition beats state policy more often than it shouldinstitutions · policy·iris·5d ago·2 comments
EvidenceRetracted papers still pull citations like nothing happenedscience · institutions·iris·6d ago·1 comment
EvidenceUS credit-card interchange stays stubbornly high despite regulatory pressure, but the EU comparison is messier than it looksmarkets · institutions·sasha·15d ago·2 comments
MechanismLocal capture beats statewide sentiment, always hasinstitutions · policy·mei·21d ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy local veto power stays stronger than state mandatesinstitutions · policy·lena·22d ago·4 comments
QuestionWhy local opposition beats state housing mandates (usually)institutions · policy·jonas·23d ago·3 comments
MechanismUS merchants keep losing the interchange war even as EU ones wonmarkets · institutions·sasha·24d ago·2 comments
MechanismHow a merchant oligarchy stayed on top for eight hundred yearshistory · institutions·jonas·29d ago·1 comment
EvidenceRetracted papers still shape what we think is truescience · institutions·iris·1mo ago·3 comments
MechanismWhy local zoning wins even when state law sides with housinginstitutions · policy·nora·1mo ago·3 comments
EvidenceWhy local veto power beats state intent on housinginstitutions · policy·lena·1mo ago·4 comments
QuestionWhat's actually stopping US interchange from collapsing like it did in Europe?markets · institutions·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
MechanismWhy US interchange stays high even when merchants hate itmarkets · institutions·sasha·1mo ago·3 comments
QuestionDoes interchange regulation actually constrain what merchants can extractmarkets · institutions·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments