Recommendations you can check.
by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
Who uses, recommends or left Marginal Revolution, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
The links post is an underrated artifact. These people produce links roundups that I particularly enjoy.
His /links page: a short standing list of the links roundups he reads, introduced by this line. Page carries no date; it has been live in this form since at least 2021 (Internet Archive). He lists this one as “Tyler Cowen”.
Most of the remaining alpha in blogs is in Marginal Revolution and LessWrong. Without either of those this blog would be a lot worse.
A post going through the blogs and newsletters he recommends and why, written after declining offers of reciprocal recommendations.
2025-06-30·thezvi.substack.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.