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Politics / capitalism, democracy, Democrats, Reagan, republican party, Trump /

A Coda to the Election of 2024

November 6, 2024

A Coda: A short and much abbreviated political history is in order to answer one simple question: Was it inevitable that the end of Reaganism and the neoliberal suppression of democracy was brought about not by an uprising from the left, but by an uprising from the right? Put alternatively and deliberately provocatively: is Trump’s […]

Commentary / democracy, Democrats, inequality, plutocracy, Republicans, Trump /

Who Brought us Trump?

November 6, 2024

Battle is joined … This might annoy some of you — it is my hasty first thought. The Democrats have been thoroughly defeated. Deservedly so. They no longer relate to, or reflect, the American working class. Without building such a relationship they cannot regain power. Nor should they. Yesterday, early on the morning of election […]

Economics / artificial intelligence, Daron Acemoglu, economic theory, James Robinson, Nobel Prize, Simon Johnson /

AJR, Nobel, and Prompt Engineering

October 17, 2024

Well done AJR. A prize deserved. And remarkably little grumbling. What’s wrong with that? In other news, my wife is deep into creating an artificial intelligence application. One of the great challenges of getting AI to be useful is something called ‘prompt engineering’. What have these two snippets of news have in common? The […]