The language of political control
Our vocabularies today aren’t state-generated but, one that has emerged from the mechanisms of liberal democracy.
Our vocabularies today aren’t state-generated but, one that has emerged from the mechanisms of liberal democracy.
Public concerns have shifted from automation-induced job losses to the prospect of a superintelligence going rogue.
The real danger of generative AI is that it will be used to undermine human autonomy.
Rather than spreading democracy, it would be better to try to reduce global insecurity.
It is a far cry from saying that we should deliberately will evil in order to achieve good.
The Machine promises to improve our lives, but what happens if the doors no longer open?
The UK government is abdicating its responsibility for ensuring a healthy, sustainable economy.
Policymakers must pay more attention than past Keynesians did to avoiding inflation.
Admitting that central banks are now agents of treasuries would destroy the intellectual edifice of current macroeconomic theory.
Work is the ultimate escape from poverty. But the United Kingdom’s income-support scheme reflects a welfare ideology that fails to distinguish fantasy from reality.
Keynes’s emphasis on the order of post-crisis economic policies is still highly relevant.
Fiscal rules should be rewritten to allow for more active counter-cyclical policy.
The key need of today's democracies is to form a good mix of localism and centralised control.
Economists have been strangely blind to the need to trade off efficiency for sustainability.
Unless telling the truth serves the bottom line, it is futile to expect social media companies to change course.