Substacks recommended by Noah Smith

Recommended by Noah Smith

Green Tape

By Thomas Hochman

Ideas and resources on all things permitting

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Scott Sumner

Nostalgia for the Neoliberal Era

Scott Sumner, one of the original econ blogging crew, has only gotten better over timme.

- Noah Smith

Manufacturing@MIT’s Substack

By Mariann Murray

Insights from articles and reports of interest on manufacturing technology, management, policy, and economics in the US and abroad

Japan Happiness

By Hiroko Yoda

A newsletter by translator and author Hiroko Yoda.

Insightful thoughts on Japanese culture and society

- Noah Smith

High Capacity

By Kyle Chan

Industrial policy, clean technology, EVs, infrastructure, and development, particularly in China and India.

A great blog about Chinese industrial policy, by Kevin Chan

- Noah Smith

@andrewchen

By Andrew Chen

Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI

A blog by venture capitalist Andrew Chen

- Noah Smith

The Grumpy Economist

By John H. Cochrane

News, views, and commentary from a free market point of view. I moved from Blogger to Substack in December 2023. For previous posts back to 2011 see my Blogger page at https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com

My personal Substack

How policymakers actually get things done

A blog about state capacity, bureaucracy, regulation, and how to get things done, by Santi Ruiz

- Noah Smith

TokyoScope by Patrick Macias

TokyoScope seeks out new trends in Japanese pop culture, along with celebrating the best of the past. Curated, written, and edited by Patrick Macias (who lives in Japan).

If you enjoy Japanese pop culture, this is the blog for you!

- Noah Smith

The Climate Brink

By Andrew Dessler

The Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future

A blog by two great climate scientists and forecasters

- Noah Smith

Infinite Scroll

By Jeremiah Johnson

The Politics of Posting and the Social Internet

A fun blog keeping track of online cultural trends

- Noah Smith

Understanding AI

By Timothy B. Lee

Exploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.

Matt Alt's Pure Invention

Dispatches from the front lines of Japanese pop culture.

A fun blog about Japanese pop culture, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing

- Noah Smith

Sustainability by numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Hannah Ritchie's excellent data-driven blog about the transition to a sustainable economy

- Noah Smith

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is a great source of interesting social science research.

- Noah Smith

Phillips’s Newsletter

By Phillips P. OBrien

Whatever intrigues me--these days the Russo-Ukraine War with regular departures

A good newsletter for updates on the Ukraine war.

- Noah Smith

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

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

Jason Crawford's newsletter about progress

- Noah Smith

Erdmann Housing Tracker

By Kevin Erdmann

How housing costs got here and where they're going.

A great blog about housing with lots of data

- Noah Smith

A Causal Affair

By Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Causal Inference, Coding and Consumer Finance

Another great econ blog, with an academic focus.

- Noah Smith

Briefing Book

By Kevin Rinz

The economic analysis policymakers get, from their expert former staffers

An econ blog by some government economists

- Noah Smith

Parachute

By Lyn Stoler

An investigation into how our cities can become beautiful, resilient, and livable in the face of climate change.

A fun blog about sustainability and urbanism

- Noah Smith

kisskisstine

By Christine Villanueva

comics, internet culture, illustrations, bunnies and moreee✨

cute art by my friend Christine Villanueva

- Noah Smith

Global Developments

By Oliver Kim

Economic development and poverty, past and present.

A blog about development econ and economic history

- Noah Smith

Progress and Poverty

By Joseph Addington

Exploring the implications of Georgism in the modern world

Georgism!

- Noah Smith

Ground Truths

By Eric Topol

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

A truly excellent blog about medical technology

- Noah Smith

The Discourse Lounge

By Darrell Owens

I analyze politics, housing affordability, transportation, culture and urban living. Mostly focused in the Bay Area but not exclusively.

An excellent blog about housing and urban issues, and (occasionally) about social trends, from the excellent Darrell Owens

- Noah Smith

CalculatedRisk Newsletter

By CalculatedRisk Real Estate News

Real Estate Data and Analysis

A great classic newsletter about housing and other economic stuff

- Noah Smith

Breaking the News

By James Fallows

Dispatches from a veteran reporter

James Fallows is one of the best reporters and essayists I've read.

- Noah Smith

The Overshoot

By Matt Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

Matt C. Klein's econ blog. Lots of good charts and macro stuff.

- Noah Smith

Apricitas Economics

By Joseph Politano

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

One of the best econ data blogs out there. By Joey Politano.

- Noah Smith

SemiAnalysis

By Dylan Patel

Bridging the gap between the world's most important industry, semiconductors, and business.

A very technical blog about semiconductors, from the consulting firm SemiAnalysis LLC

- Noah Smith

Campbell Ramble

By Alexander Campbell

Occasional observations about markets, data, and the broader world.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis: Faster

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

A great aggregation of news and ideas related to technological progress, by Jim Pethokoukis.

- Noah Smith

Volts

By David Roberts

A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week.

David Roberts' climate blog. My favorite resource for climate stuff.

- Noah Smith

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Matt Yglesias' blog. 'Nuff said!

- Noah Smith

Construction Physics

By Brian Potter

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Brian Potter explains the construction industry, and plenty of urbanist stuff along the way.

- Noah Smith

Kyla’s Newsletter

By kyla scanlon

human-centric economic analysis to help all of us understand the world better

Gen Z's great economics explainer

- Noah Smith

The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

New and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

A Broad and Ample Road

By Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu

Based in Taiwan, we're interested in acts of creation and solidarity, in liberation struggles and art, in poetry and protest.

Interesting stuff from Taiwan

- Noah Smith

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

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

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith.

A centrist magazine

- Noah Smith

Economic Forces

Pondering price theory, past and present. A weekly newsletter covering all things economics.

A fun economics blog

- Noah Smith

Arpitrage

By Arpit Gupta

Finance, Real Estate, and Urban Economics

A smart economics blog, by Arpit Gupta

- Noah Smith

Olga Khazan

mental health, science, life hacks, updates about and insights from my new book about personality change

A blog about psychology from one of my favorite Atlantic writers

- Noah Smith

Dwarkesh Podcast

By Dwarkesh Patel

Deeply researched interviews

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

The first economics blog, and still probably the best.

- Noah Smith

What's New Under the Sun

By Matt Clancy

What academia knows* about innovation

Matt Clancy's excellent blog about the economics of science and technology.

- Noah Smith

Noahpinion

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