Substacks recommended by Maxwell Tabarrok

Recommended by Maxwell Tabarrok

Statecraft

By Santi Ruiz

How policymakers actually get things done

From Poverty to Progress by Michael Magoon

By Michael Magoon of “From Poverty to Progress”

Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress. How we got it, and how we can keep it going.

Ruxandra’s Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress—a digest of posts from rootsofprogress.org

One of the intellectual centers of the Progress Studies movement.

- Maxwell Tabarrok

The Fitzwilliam

By Fitzwilliam Staff

New ideas for Ireland

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Enthralling and intelligent metascience.

- Maxwell Tabarrok

Samstack

By Sam Atis

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Of All Trades

By Connor Tabarrok

A newsletter by Connor Tabarrok, centered around Engineering, Economics, Effective Altruism, and the Environment.

Fascinating posts on infrastructure, fungus, and AI

- Maxwell Tabarrok

FreakTakes

By Eric Gilliam

Historical analyses for those building a new generation of research orgs

Construction Physics

By Brian Potter

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

Get the latest updates on our magazine, featuring new and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

What's New Under the Sun

By Matt Clancy

What academia knows* about innovation

The best curated literature review on the internet, focused on the economics of science.

- Maxwell Tabarrok

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

Maximum Progress

Recommended by Maxwell Tabarrok