The wage floor for American farmwork fell by a third. Two different things could have caused that, one defensible and one not, and no one has separated them. In late summer 2025 the USDA discontinued the Farm Labor Survey, the instrument that measured what American farmworkers earn and set the wage floor for the H-2A … Continue reading U.S. Farm Wages: The Decomposition Nobody Has Run
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Cheap Talk, Costly Feuds: A Pricing Theory of Status and Conflict
A hotel manager once told a marathoner he could run a six-minute mile. The marathoner — who had raced twenty-six miles at 7:35 pace and knew exactly what a six-minute mile costs a body — called bullshit. The manager didn't retreat to "well, in high school." He doubled down. Nothing about that exchange makes sense … Continue reading Cheap Talk, Costly Feuds: A Pricing Theory of Status and Conflict
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