No, most of them are not about small stuff. Emphatically not. I don’t see what you could possibly have in mind as an alternative, to be frank.

10. A small initial question — it is a case study — but with fairly far-reaching implications for anti-trust regulation.

9. Wondering why voters behave in zero sum ways — is that not a big question?

8. The program itself runs to billions and billions of dollars. Loans involving collateral is literally trillions. Knowing how averse people are matters.

7. Is why countries grow rich not the biggest question of all?

6. It’s a case study. Sure. Admittedly, this one company has fifty billion in revenue.

5. If you look at this, and say it is not answering a big question, you’re mad. Absolutely mad.

4. They have results which imply a 40% on labor income in developing countries. Are taxes no longer big questions?

3. The direct effects on the industry are in the tens of billions of dollars. But it’s really not about that at all — it’s about endogenous growth theory.

2. This has implications for political economy, as well as simply accurately studying an entire city.

1. Like I said, it shows how we can create five billion dollars a year in value, right now. That’s on top of it making tons of cool advancements in empirically estimating optimal scoring rules. If your ideal of economics does not include this, what does it include?

Basically, if you consider these small questions, I cannot conceive of what you consider big questions. It would be good if you enlighten me, but to be frank, I think this is old wine in new bottles — and poured without any consideration of whether it’s still relevant.