Sunday Assorted Links from Marginal Revolution
Key Takeaways
- •The New York Times profiled Maria Edgeworth, a 19th-century Anglo-Irish novelist credited as a pioneer of popularizing economics through fiction.
- •The post gathers several perspectives, including one from former UK National Cyber Security Centre head Ciaran Martin, arguing that fears around the Hugging Face incident and AI catastrophe are overstated.
- •Quanta Magazine reports on new claims that quantum entanglement builds space-time and that 'magic' gives it gravity, part of efforts to derive gravity from quantum information theory.
- •The Washington Post reports youth football participation is growing again as coaches adapt to concerns about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, reversing years of decline.
- •The post also includes travel notes on Egypt and a link to Gabriel Fauré's Pie Jesu from his Requiem.
Marginal Revolution, the economics blog co-authored by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, continues its long-running Sunday tradition of assorted links, published August 30, 2026:
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The New York Times covers Maria Edgeworth, the 19th-century Anglo-Irish novelist often credited as a pioneer in popularizing economics through fiction — a lineage that later writers on political economy, from Harriet Martineau to modern pop-economics authors, built upon. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth
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A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident, collecting perspectives that push back on more alarming framings of the episode:
- A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident
- Ciaran Martin in The Economist — Martin, formerly head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, has been a consistent voice cautioning against overstated AI catastrophe narratives
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- Jacob Bruggeman
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Chandhana visits Egypt: Notes on Egypt
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New quantum claims — Quanta Magazine reports on how entanglement builds space-time, and how "magic" gives it gravity, part of the outlet's ongoing coverage of efforts to derive gravity from quantum information theory: Entanglement builds space-time; now "magic" gives it gravity
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How youth football is evolving due to CTE concerns, via The Washington Post — a notable shift after years of declining youth participation in tackle football linked to worries about chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Youth football is growing again as coaches adapt to CTE concerns
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Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré, from his Requiem: Listen on YouTube
Source: Marginal Revolution
