Marginal REVOLUTION

Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

2026-02-24 · 00:00 UTC ·Tyler Cowen ·0 min read

Brief

Tyler Cowen’s Feb 24, 2026 Tuesday assorted links collects six items: an NBER paper asking whether NAFTA worsened U.S. health, a Feb 20 NYT Athletic proposal for economics-based NBA anti-tanking reforms, a Colossus profile of Shyam Sankar (Palantir), a tweet about hard courts’ impact on tennis, an Ezra Klein–Jack Clark NYT piece, and speculative X posts.

Source evidence

title: Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
author: Tyler Cowen
contenttype: article
publication: Marginal REVOLUTION
published: 2026-02-24T00:00:00
sourceurl: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/tuesday-assorted-links-557.html?utmsource=rss&utmmedium=rss&utm_campaign=tuesday-assorted-links-557

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Tuesday assorted links

  1. Did NAFTA make America less healthy?

  2. Economics-related ideas for fixing NBA tanking (NYT).

  3. Shyam Sankar.

  4. Are hard courts eating the tour?

  5. Ezra and Jack Clark on agents (NYT).

  6. Maybe the free money is gone by now? Alternatively, perhaps the aliens are enriching themselves?