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Are you solving the wrong problem?
Gans' central thesis is that "at their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”.
Chichilnisky lays out the history of how we came to be in the emergency we are in now, what we have tried before, and how we can get out....
Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft....
Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....
"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...
Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy in US history - so triggering a global financial crisis and recession...
Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....
Delton focuses on the conservative policy goals of the organization but also its surprisingly progressive tactics...