Tag: economics
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In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics more ›
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One thing that is always daunting about scholarship is the sheer incomprehensible vastness of it. We strive for originality and novelty in research, but this is hard to achieve. https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-shape-of-techno-moral-revolutions.html more ›
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Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›
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This essay proposes a new model of personal and public wealth-building that can address the current crisis of inequality in the United States. https://www.berggruen.org/ideas/articles/the-mutualist-economy-a-new-deal-for-ownership/ more ›
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The number of billionaires worldwide grew by 660 in 2020, according to the latest annual tally by Forbes magazine. There are now a record 2,755 people globally who have more… more ›
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The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a… more ›
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During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local payment platforms for collecting donations to support it.… more ›