By Samuel Indyk, Alun John and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss May 21, 20254:44 PM CDT LONDON/NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) – Bitcoin rose to its highest level on record on Wednesday, eclipsing […]
Is Water a Common Good?
The economics of water: Valuing the hydrological cycle as a global common good 22 October 2024 – Honorary President of The Club of Rome, Mamphela Ramphele, is one of the commissioners […]
Modern Monetary Theory, explained
A very detailed walkthrough of the big new left economic idea. Modern Monetary Theory is having a moment. The theory, in brief, argues that countries that issue their own currencies can […]
Putting the ‘I’ in science
Chris Lintott’s chronicle of the booming citizen-science project Zooniverse is inspirational, finds Michael West. The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse Chris Lintott Oxford University Press (2019) Citizen science is […]
The real Adam Smith
He might be the poster boy for free-market economics, but that distorts what Adam Smith really thought The invisible hand was invoked not to draw attention to the problem of […]
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