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Today, thanks to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), diverse software can communicate with each other.

API Economies and the Modularization of Production

The dozens of apps on your phone can communicate with each other thanks to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which revolutionized software beginning in the year 2000. What are the economic ramifications of modularized production, where add-ons and expansions abound?...
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Yen Carry Trade

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Expansionary Fiscal Stance

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Cheapening of Electronic Products

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Austrian School of Economics

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American National Debt

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Non-Renewable Resources

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Broken Window Fallacy

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Gross Wages vs. Net Wages

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What does Hysteresis do?

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AI can work much faster than human employees, but rates of AI hallucinations and other errors remain significant.

The Economics of AI Hallucinations and Error Costs

AI can be great, but "AI hallucinations" are frequent when AI software attempts to plug in data holes with information that it creates. This can include "ghost citations" of false sources of information. What will firms do to limit the dangers of AI error?...
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