09/11/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. We Need a New Science of Progress (Atlantic)

2. Want to make a difference on policy and governance? Become an expert in something specific and boring (Effective Altruism Forum)

3. Magna Carta (SSRN)

4. A review on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using bibliometric and meta-analysis (ScienceDirect)

5. Who Runs the AEA? (Marginal Revolution)

6. American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers (Cornell University)

7. Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner (Works in Progress)

8. Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID, India (Our World in Data)

9. Stories are bad for your intelligence (The Ruffian)

10. The origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process: assessing the evidence (SocArXiv Papers)