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Forget everything you think you know about the term at a time when fears about the first contraction since the coronavirus pandemic swirl.

So far, the adoption rate of methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) has been quite uneven across the economics profession. The uptake of these methods has been heavily…

The lessons of New Town at St. Charles.

As more and more cities and nonprofits implement cash-grant “guaranteed income” programs, it is important to keep some critical program design elements in mind.

The social psychologist Robert Cialdini is a pioneer in the science of persuasion. His 1984 book Influence is a classic, and he has just published an expanded and revised edition. In this episode of…

«the seven psychological levers that bewitch our rational minds and lead us to buy, behave, or believe without a second thought.»

With universal basic income (UBI) on everyone's lips, the process of reliably and consistently transferring cash remains surprisingly complex.

A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?

«the concept of money was so pervasive and unexamined that money had become an end in itself, not the vehicle it was intended to be»

What immunology taught me about living on Earth

Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.

It’s a good time to be a worker and a bad time to be a consumer — the problem is most people are both.

It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok

Let me share a little theory I have about optimism, and why progress is so easy to underestimate. I’ll explain it in four parts. A crocodile in Costa Rica was found pregnant recently – and she did it…

«What’s relevant to a society is how well people are communicating their ideas, and how well they’re cooperating, not how clever the individuals are»

A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.

Your expensive coffee habit is indeed getting even more expensive.

A followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

America is the greatest economic and military power in world history — and our quality of life is garbage. But why?

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data

We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?

The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.

Is this the word we need to describe unprecedented convergences between ecological, political and economic strife?