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Commentary, Economics / artificial intelligence, complexity, George Dyson, technology /

Who’s In Charge: Us or our Technology?

August 23, 2021

So who is in charge? Who controls the flow of technology? Is it us? Or does the technology now control us? We live in a technology infused world. Our current civilization sits on a foundation accumulated through the past few centuries and built of machine power. We cannot separate ourselves from this cumulative support system […]

Commentary, Economics /

Diversity in Economics

August 18, 2021

In this case geographical diversity. Dani Rodrik has brought to our attention a rather serious problem within the economics profession: it is still dominated by people living and working in the West. As a consequence it has a decided bias towards issues that are of significant interest to the West. This is, of course, not news […]

Economics / Aghion, growth theory, inflation, marginalism, neo-classical economics, Robert Solow, Schumpeter, total factor productivity, wages /

Economics as Myth Making

August 18, 2021

Well that was an interesting summer. At least I managed to reduce my pile of unread books slightly. Only one or two to go. And now it’s back to … what exactly? So little seems to change. There are just so many times I can read sentences beginning with “Neoclassical theory does not explain …”. […]

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