Sometimes Giving a Person a Choice is an Act of Terrible Cruelty
By Lisa Tessman Aeon It is not always good to have the opportunity to make a choice. When we must decide to take one action rather than another, we also, […]
Tag Archives: Capitalism
Robot Capitalism
By James H. Nolt World Policy Robots taking over is a staple of science fiction, including in Isaac Asimov’s classic novel, I Robot, and the films based on it. The […]
Changing the Conversation About Government Regulation
By Daniel Carpenter Washington Monthly It’s late, and we’re tired. In the last year of the Obama presidency, a certain fatigue has set in to domestic policy debates, especially over […]
The Importance of Maintenance Alongside Innovation
By Lee Vinsel & Andrew Russell Aeon Evidence has emerged that regions of intense innovation also have systemic problems with inequality. In 2013, protests erupted in San Francisco over the […]
China’s Great Stall
By Martin Wolf The American Interest The Republic of Korea and Taiwan are the only economies of appreciable size to have transformed themselves from low-income to high-income status inside two […]
Global Development in the Age of Automation: Catapult or Detour?
By Jessica Davis Pluess The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Earlier this fall, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking told readers on Reddit’s Ask Me Anything question series that despite machines having the […]
Should you be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit?
By Mattathias Schwartz The New York Times Magazine The Miller quick coupler comes in a few different sizes. The one I tried out has the proportions of a laundry bin […]
