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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · 21d

Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen.

Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.

worksinprogress.co/print

Print - Works in Progress Magazine

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jun 12

The latest issue of Works in Progress is out today!

- One weird trick to build a metro
- The FDA's secret liberalisation of animal drugs
- How Japan builds infrastructure through cities
- Brain-computer interfaces
- How NZ invented inflation targeting

And more! worksinprogress.co

Homepage of newest issue of Works in Progress magazine, featuring pieces on through running, redrawing cities, animal drug regulation, inflation targeting, and more.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Jun 11

Works in Progress has (finally) come to podcasting. Our new series launched today, Hard Drugs, focuses on medical innovation – episode one is about a new drug that might allow us to eradicate HIV worldwide. It’s presented by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Works in Progress Podcast

Technology Podcast · Works in Progress is an online magazine devoted to new and underrated ideas about economic growth, scientific progress, and technology. Subscribe to listen to the Works in Progres...

podcasts.apple.com

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Mar 16

Also, strongly recommend turning on extended thinking. I wish it showed the chain of thought like with DeepSeek, because once you can see that you can really intuit how AGI might happen using the basic tech we have now.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Mar 16

I’ve found Claude’s “Projects” to be quite helpful for writing, since they allow you to keep research and writing help all in the same place. I hope they add some kind of notepad function as well and it could end up replacing Google Docs / Obsidian for my early drafts.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Mar 1

Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying.

boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Feb 3

I am no longer monitoring this website. Please follow me on x.com/s8mb for all the latest news and views from me!

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Jan 8

Great post!

Henry Curr @curr.bsky.social · Jan 8

America should offer to buy Greenland from Greenlanders, not Denmark. And it would probably be a good deal to make every one a multimillionaire in exchange for the territory. Trump should rescind all threats and instead name a price--my column

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century

Donald Trump’s threat of force is unwise. Instead, he should come up with a price

www.economist.com

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Dec 16

Great to have @jessesingal.com on the platform!

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · Dec 5

It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...

Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress

Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 29

Thank you!

Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 28

Thank you! I think the biggest factor by far here is that the barriers we put up to investment mean the returns to investments are low, so saving rates end up being low (higher returns to saving, higher savings rates). There are other factors too but that is the most significant imo.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 28

What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? I appeared on the FT’s Economics Show with @soumayakeynes.bsky.social to talk about why banning investment in housing and infrastructure might be at the root of our problems. on.ft.com/3ZcCgwp

What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman

Is the UK failing to build for its future?

on.ft.com

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Nov 28

If you’re looking for a podcast today, make it this one! @sambowman.co discusses his coauthored lengthy “manifesto” ukfoundations.co
Lots of British problems are also Irish problems, especially regarding infrastructure and housing

What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes · Episode

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 22

Surely it's not a real name?!

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · Nov 21

OK, this is now Information I Can Discuss In Public, so: new project!

For the next ~year, I will be writing a living literature review on migration, a la @mattsclancy.bsky.social’s New Things Under the Sun and funded by Open Philanthropy

First post coming Tuesday on the Mariel Boatlift!

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 22

Marvellous – what a great project, and a great pairing.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 22

Good piece by Fred De Fossard (I presume a pseudonym) on the four laws that lead to people being jailed for unpleasant tweets and harassed by police for signs saying “Love Muslims, hate Islam”. Any future Conservative govt should plan to repeal these ASAP.

thecritic.co.uk/how-to-end-t...

How to end the free speech crisis | Fred de Fossard | The Critic Magazine

The free speech crisis in Britain has become an international news story. To many — particularly American — observers, the defining image of modern Britain is the fact that the British state…

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 22

As I say, I approve of it!

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 22

The best thing about Bluesky is the restoration of high follower accounts to their rightful place as the most important accounts on the platform. Twitter’s egalitarianism under Musk, where a tweet by someone with 30 followers could go viral with enough engagement, was a Jacobinist disaster.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 20

Real economic resources are being used if your niece does work for you. Taxing that in one case but not another would be distortionary. Whereas a transfer given without anything in return doesn't involve any economic cost. And we DON'T currently tax any other transfer like that, even betting wins.

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 20

Yes, all that is taxed exactly as much as if you do it for yourself. Whereas your assets are taxed at a 40% marginal rate if you leave it to your children, but not at all if you consume them all for yourself.

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John Kroencke @johnkroencke.bsky.social · Nov 20

Urbanists often look to places like zoning-free Houston, the private places of St Louis, and privately-developed exurban communities like Irvine. There we see rules about land use emerge between residents and via developers.

I wrote about another example.

theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl...
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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 20

Certainly you shouldn't be able to avoid tax just by dying. I'm not really convinced that a tax on house price gains is desirable, but if we had one, it should apply in the same way to homes transferred at death. But *only* taxing houses transferred at death is crazy!

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · Nov 20

Don't we have "market forces" to do that? Why would we want an extra tax?

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