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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

2026-02-23 · 00:00 UTC ·Tyler Cowen ·1 min read

Brief

Tyler Cowen’s “Monday assorted links” (23 Feb 2026) curates eight items: reporting on Nigeria’s stalled industrialization after 65 years; an APSR study on the Black Sea slave trade’s long‑run effects in Eastern Europe; debates on AI governance (Vitalik Buterin) and AI’s gendered impacts (FT); commentary on investor concentration in Nvidia, new ‘kingpin’ warfare tactics, and strategies to defeat Cártel Jalisco.

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title: Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
author: Tyler Cowen
contenttype: article
publication: Marginal REVOLUTION
published: 2026-02-23T00:00:00
sourceurl: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/monday-assorted-links-548.html?utmsource=rss&utmmedium=rss&utm_campaign=monday-assorted-links-548

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Monday assorted links

  1. “Nigeria’s industrialization fails to gather steam after 65 years.”

  2. Did Eastern Europe produce that many slaves?

  3. Vitalik on AI and governance.

  4. Does AI put women at a disadvantage? (FT)

  5. I wonder what their portfolios look like. Maybe they just bought a lot of Nvidia and consider themselves prophets. Here is an economics-motivated response, though it has some problems too, such as underrating Say’s Law, which is not always false. It is not in reality that complicated, but over the years we have talked ourselves into a lot of dubious macro mechanisms.

  6. More on the new “kingpin” warfare strategies.

  7. From a week ago: “Derrotar a Cártel Jalisco sin incendiar el país.“