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ChinaEconTalk: Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: A Global History of Maoism
This week, in part 1 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of the recently published book on Mao’s international legacy entitled Maoism: A Global History. In this episode, Lovell introduces...
Examining the Hayek–Friedman hypothesis on economic and political freedom
This paper examines empirically the hypothesis made famous by Nobel Laureates Friedrich A. Hayek and Milton Friedman that societies with high levels o…
Young, Warner, Rubio, Coons Introduce Innovative Higher Ed Financing Proposal | U.S. Senator Todd Young of Indiana
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Todd Young of Indiana
Reflections from Spain
I just got back from a five-week visit to Spain. The first four weeks, I was teaching labor economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín while my sons took Spanish-language classes on Islamism, Self-Government, and the Philosophy of Hayek. Then we...
Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality (Ep. 71) - Conversations with Tyler
If you want to speculate on the development of tech, no one has a better brain to pick than Neal Stephenson.
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My Conversation with the excellent Neal Stephenson
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That was then, this is now
The data came from Facebook: During Obama’s initial 2008 bid for office, his team had already embraced technology in a greater capacity than any before it, assembling massive email lists and other targeted initiatives that earned Obama historic...
Congress Targets the Wrong Tech Monopolies
Industrial firms are the real antitrust problem. The solution? Welcome rather than shun Chinese competition.
#FAKE: vídeo de drone era pegadinha de Influenciador digital
Jorna de Brasília vai atrás de história e descobre que tudo não passava de uma piada entre amigos
r/WTF - Annoyed by loud music, man uses drone to hit neighbors with fireworks
23,080 votes and 1,533 comments so far on Reddit
JD.com brings robot delivery vans to over 10 Chinese cities
Country's No. 2 e-tailer weighed down by $1.7bn annual technology investment
William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton advising the Democratic Party
Here is the opening of a Jacob M. Schlesinger Wall Street Journal piece: For decades, William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton toiled in obscurity. They criticized mainstream economists and politicians for failing to address racial inequality, and...
What the U.S.-China Trade War Is Really About
The tariffs get all the attention, but the dispute is mainly over national security and geopolitical power.
Notes from Peter Thiel’s speech at the National Conservatism conference on July 14, 2019
I took notes on my phone, so any mistakes are mine. These notes should be treated as paraphrases and not as direct quotes, since I was not…
New face of the £50 note is revealed
The note - once called the currency of corrupt elites - gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.
South Korea's birth rate just crashed to another alarming low
The number of babies born last year dropped nearly 31,000 compared with the previous year.
Did Austerity Cause Brexit? Evidence from Aggregate Trends in Euroscepticism
Fetzer (2018) presents evidence from analyses of panel data at the constituency and individual levels, which suggest that austerity measures implemented by the Conservative-led Coalition government may have caused an increase in the Leave...
Hilma af Klint: Founder of Abstract Art
Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is now believed to be the first Western abstract artist. Hilma grew up in idyllic rural Sweden and it is considered that nature and also a keen interest in…
Hong Kong protesters abandoned Facebook for other platforms
Contrary to the 2014 Occupy Hong Kong movement, protesters chose to organise on forums and encrypted message services rather than rely on Facebook.