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Suppose there are some economic activities that are zero sum, where R&D just steals market share. Maybe advertising, signaling education credentials, political campaigns. As an economy grows richer, do these sectors occupy a larger share of the economy? Is there a name for this?
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fwiw you could reframe all of these as communication or coordination costs and as the economy becomes both larger and more complex, it makes sense that those costs would increase
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So uhm….A new meta-analysis of >200 effect-sizes (n > 60,000) in @NatureHumBehav found that on average debunking scientific misinformation had no effect 😳 Yikes! nature.com/articles/s4156
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