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Works in Progress is a new online magazine featuring original writing from some of the most interesting thinkers in the world.
Author of The Future and Its Enemies, The Substance of Style, The Power of Glamour, and, most recently, The Fabric of Civilization. Contributing editor to WorksinProgress.co.
Founder & editor, worksinprogress.co @stripe.
I write the newsletter Scientific Discovery. I'm a co-founder of Works in Progress, host the podcast Hard Drugs, and advise Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform.
Occasionally writing.
Using price theory to understand the world
I'm the co-founder and editor of worksinprogress.co
Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
Editor at Works in Progress. Interested in \ud83d\udcc8
Economic Historian
Writer at Works in Progress and co-founder of Clinical Trial Abundance. Scientist by training.
Technology, finance, policy.
Bioengineer and writer. Fellow at Astera Institute. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.
I am an Editor at Works in Progress, where I focus on architecture, urbanism, urban history, and housing policy. I am also a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Previously I worked in think tanking, academia and government.
Scientist + Writer. Microbiology, genomics, evolution.
Science blog at blog.jacobtrefethen.com (you can subscribe there)
I endeavour that everything on here will be interesting.
I research economics, history, and cities
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