Most Popular Posts of 2019

Here are the top MR posts for 2019, as measured by landing pages. The most popular post was Tyler’s

1. How I practice at what I do

Alas, I don’t think that will help to create more Tylers. Coming in at number two was my post:

2. What is the Probability of a Nuclear War?

Other posts in the top five were 3. Pretty stunning data on dating from Tyler and my posts, 4. One of the Greatest Environmental Crimes of the 20th Century,and 5. The NYTimes is Woke.

My post on The Baumol Effect which introduced my new book Why are the Prices So Damned High (one of Mercatus’s most downloaded items ever) was number 6 and rounding out the top ten were a bunch from Tyler, including 7. Has anyone said this yet?, 8. What is wrong with social justice warriors?, 9. Reading and rabbit holes and my post Is Elon Musk Prepping for State Failure?.

Other big hits from me included

• Air Pollution Reduces IQ, a Lot (Mostly a Patrick Collison post)
• The Nobel Prize in Economic Science Goes to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
• Bitcoin is Less Secure than Most People Think
• Active Learning Works But Students Don’t Like It
• Sex Differences in Personality are Large and Important

Tyler had some truly great posts in the last few days of 2019 including what I thought was the post of the year (and not just on MR!) Work on these things.

Also important were:

• “What will you do to stay weird?”
• Joker
• Amazon and Taxes a Simple Primer
• Best Non-fiction books of 2019.

Happy holidays everyone!