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Works in Progress is a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world. Subscribe to our new print edition now. We are proud to be part of @Stripe.
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🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇺 The Works in Progress print edition is now available in Canada, Australia, and the whole European Union. Subscribe now to receive our first print issue, out later this month. https://t.co/LRmNLwDPSF
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In 1965, married American women did 34 hours of housework weekly. By 2010, that had fallen to 18 hours. The dishwasher wasn’t the only cause, but it certainly helped. https://t.co/qftTKKU8Rf
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In 1965, married American women did 34 hours of housework weekly. By 2010, that fell to 18 hours. The dishwasher helped.
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AND IT IS OUT! We have had enough reports saying Europe is stagnating. Change is not possible if we do not change the way the EU works. With Bengt Holmstrom and @competitionprof , I argue the EU should focus on prosperity and stop regulating everything. https://t.co/iZnCssIiP7
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An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.
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There are lots of articles we’d like to publish for which we can’t think of the right author. Here is a list of them. If you’re the right person to write one of these, please send us an email! https://t.co/mRWlPReAob
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RT @s8mb: A new call for articles that WIP would like to commission. We’re looking for everything from Japanese pension reforms to making…
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New podcast with @JesusFerna7026: why the fertility collapse is happening everywhere, not just rich countries.
Fertility is collapsing all around the world, not just in the developed West: - Mexico now has lower fertility than the US (even non-Hispanic whites!). - Arab-Israeli fertility is now lower than that of Jewish Israelis. - For first time in 200 years, rich people are having MORE
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Works in Progress, print edition, is now available in • Canada 🇨🇦 • Australia 🇦🇺 • The entire European Union 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 Subscribe today for six beautiful issues a year. The first edition ships in two weeks. https://t.co/PoUJhC9HEn
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Listen now to our conversation with Congressman @JakeAuch about Baumol’s cost disease, new cities, American history, and more. Youtube: https://t.co/1i8eapTYa5 Apple: https://t.co/4OQoRDEZx7 Spotify: https://t.co/2L31czvs2C Transcript:
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Episode eight of the Works in Progress podcast is about the politics of the Abundance movement
Congressman Jake Auchincloss (@JakeAuch) wants to find a cure for America's cost disease. High costs in sectors with low productivity growth and labour intensity should, he says, be the centre of the Democratic Party's economic agenda: making sectors like housing, healthcare,
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Listen now to our conversation with Congressman @JakeAuch about Baumol’s cost disease, new cities, American history, and more. Youtube: https://t.co/1i8eapTYa5 Apple: https://t.co/4OQoRDEZx7 Spotify: https://t.co/2L31czvs2C Transcript:
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Episode eight of the Works in Progress podcast is about the politics of the Abundance movement
Congressman Jake Auchincloss (@JakeAuch) wants to find a cure for America's cost disease. High costs in sectors with low productivity growth and labour intensity should, he says, be the centre of the Democratic Party's economic agenda: making sectors like housing, healthcare,
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Almost all of Europe has a housing shortage. Why? And how can we solve it? Works in Progress is hosting an evening of lightning talks in Brussels. If you want to help fix this, please join us! https://t.co/H4JZmd78Fg
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Europe's inability to build housing prevents many from ever affording their own home. It also drives inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, and…
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The Origins of Efficiency by @_brianpotter is out today. Read it to understand how manufacturing of everything from light bulbs to penicillin really works.
Out now: https://t.co/KEyYy67F90 200 years on from the Industrial Revolution, we still struggle to understand what makes a production process more efficient. The Origins of Efficiency fills in that gap. Examining industries from steel to semiconductors to auto manufacturing,
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1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
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Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, one of the inspirations behind Works in Progress.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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How AI could help us get a vaccine for Strep A and other diseases we hate. The new episode of Hard Drugs is out now.
NEW EPISODE of HARD DRUGS! AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN and other AI tools are transforming biology and drug design. But how do they work? What can’t they do (yet)? And can we use them to make a vaccine against Strep A for the very first time? In this episode, Jacob and I talk
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Only 2% of the public believes that a new development will improve their area. No wonder they fight them! Create Streets’s Nicholas Boys Smith (@boys_nicholas) joined the Works in Progress Podcast to explain what planners and developers have been getting wrong, how to create
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In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?
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In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton warned students not to train as radiologists, the field was so ripe for AI automation. Today, there are more new radiologist jobs than ever and radiologist wages are up 48%. Yet AI *has* exploded in the field. So what happened? https://t.co/hdrZGNlHc7
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Interesting discussion on "refinement" vs "rejection" of scientific theories
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective. https://t.co/r7vIhcXLuT
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I never appreciated just how distinct (or important) antibodies are compared to every other drug.
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Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores an important fact: systems fight back. https://t.co/DBzcxYGC0C
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Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores that systems fight back.
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