25-02-21 Roundup

John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism


The Ballad of the White Horse


Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP


Reflections on Palantir


Do we ever get over things?

I appreciated this


The World Bank and other IFIs should get serious about climate adaptation in low-income countries


The Compliance Doom Loop


The Curious Case of Colony Ridge


The Detritus of Detty December

Femi's updates from Nigeria are laugh out loud funny.


The World's Biggest Desalination Plants Should Not Exist

A great update on progress and trends in desalination tech.


The real origins of American freedom of speech

How to end the free speech crisis


Making Markets in Time

This is a rational explanation of various things that people find annoying about VCs. If you compare them to futures contract traders arbitraging a small part of a large supply chain then the fact they are very herd like makes much more sense.

Explains how some of the mega-firms have raised so much money while not producing obviously great returns.

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