A collection of 21 posts
Blockchain technology has the power to render the dealings of businesses and nation states into open books, purged of secrecy and the privacy of elite cabals.
This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow.
As a result, Bitcoin is starting to look like a credible investment in any respectable financial portfolio.
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
“Private tuition can be harmful to the long-term academic prospects of children, a leading London headteacher warned today.”
This is not an argument against immigration in general. Instead, it suggests there are good reasons to be skeptical of arguments for open-borders.
Moller musters economic data to suggest that blatant injustices barely show up in the overall trajectory of economic growth in most countries over long periods of time.
When a BBC Question Time audience member asked “Who will make our coffee in Pret?”
When companies demand more and more degrees for very basic jobs, they cut off access for unskilled workers to break into the job market.
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
Two traits — general intelligence and self-control — are perhaps our best individual level predictors of living a successful life.
If the lessons of the past 50 years are to be learned, policymakers will need a much broader course of instruction than can be provided by human capital theory.
The question is: Is that entirely a good thing? As our research – and Trump’s rise – shows, not necessarily.
The poor could never rise to the top of Roman politics; the common people could never seize the political initiative; and it was axiomatic that the richer an individual citizen was, the more political weight he should have.
The marketplace of ideas is premised on the notion that when people exchange competing ideas, they assign value to those with the most intellectual merit and discard those without merit.