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economics
2016-08-11 12:19
Have Humans Really "Used all the Resources for the Year?"
And this is why more journalists should learn basic economics: Motherboard weighs in with "Humans have used all the earth's resources for the year." The article is worried because if the whole
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marketing
2016-08-11 12:13
Yes, marketers sell us shit we don't need. Deal with it.
A lefty friend was upset about advertisers who "sell us shit we don't need." To use a technical marketing term, demand "agitation." This has, of course, been a common left-wing complaint
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robots
2016-08-05 09:58
Will the Robots take all the Jobs?
The job-threatening rise of the machines is an economically illiterate meme that refuses to die. We’re actually probably in the early stages of it, a bull-market in luddism, if you will. Bastiat’s Candlemakers
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sci-fi
2016-08-05 09:03
Will Economics End Innovation?
Is innovation slowing? Will it stop? A new paper by one Jonathan Huebner in the journal “Technological Forecasting & Social Change” argues that innovation is slowing, indeed that it’s halved in the
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intro
2016-08-05 08:53
Hi, I'm Peter St Onge
I'm an Austrian School economist, teach at a business school in Taiwan, and blog at profitsofchaos.com. I used to be a hedge fund manager and worked in corporate sales and marketing, so I write about investing
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