Tag: economy

• Uber drivers are freelancers, not employees, federal labor lawyer says

  May 15, 2019

  Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company, the federal labor board’s general counsel said in an opinion released May 14th. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623467/uber-driver-freelancers-employees-federal-labor-lawyer-contractor more ›

• Embracing externalities

  March 8, 2019

  The world is better because industrialism made it better. The world is worse because industrialism made it worse. https://seths.blog/2019/03/embracing-externalities/ more ›

• The Big Blockchain Lie

  November 24, 2018

  The Big Blockchain Lie Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year’s absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/blockchain-big-lie-by-nouriel-roubini-2018-10 more ›

• The Land That Failed to Fail

  November 19, 2018

  The Land That Failed to Fail The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-rules.html more ›

• Lions on the move II: Realizing the potential of Africa’s economies

  November 18, 2018

  Lions on the move II: Realizing the potential of Africa’s economies Africa’s economic fundamentals remain strong, but governments and companies will need to work even harder to keep the region’s… more ›

• The Secret of Eternal Growth

  November 4, 2018

  The Secret of Eternal Growth It is an article of faith for the anti-capitalist, anti-trade left that endless economic growth is impossible on a finite planet. The sooner it can… more ›

• The End of Ownership

  November 23, 2017

  The End of Ownership » Anyone who plays MapleStory—an online multiplayer game created by South Korean developer Wizet—soon learns to loathe what gamers call “looting. more ›

• The quitting economy

  July 26, 2017

  The quitting economy » In the early 1990s, career advice in the United States changed. A new social philosophy, neoliberalism, was transforming society, including the nature of employment, and career… more ›

• The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by…

  June 17, 2017

  The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium » In one of the most seminal works in the field of history of economic thought (History of… more ›

• We need to challenge the myth that the rich are…

  May 29, 2016

  We need to challenge the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators » In this article  revives some concepts – ‘unearned income’, ‘rentiers’, ‘functionless investors’, and ‘improperty’ – to explain why the… more ›