{"slug": "friday-assorted-links", "title": "Friday assorted links", "summary": "Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul McCartney. The collection also explores AI-written dissertations, classical guitar discourse, and a new algorithm for ranking venture capitalists.", "body_md": "Friday assorted links by Tyler Cowen May 29, 2026 at 2:08 pm 1. Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? 2. Peter Thiel and Argentina (NYT). 3. Discourse on classical guitar. 4. How many dissertations are AI-written? 5. NYT talks with Macca. 6. New algorithm for ranking VCs.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/friday-assorted-links", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/friday-assorted-links-574.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-assorted-links-574", "published_at": "2026-05-29 18:08:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 18:18:32.676134+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Tyler Cowen", "Peter Thiel", "Argentina", "NYT", "Macca"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/friday-assorted-links", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/friday-assorted-links.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/friday-assorted-links.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/friday-assorted-links.jsonld"}}