Browsing: Economy

I have to start this blog post with a confession. I’ve never been interested in game theory, and even though…

Does morality do us any good? The New Yorker (Anthony L.). Yes, it often makes decisions easier. You also typically…

Opponents of immigration often lament the fact that while the United States once attracted high-quality immigrants from countries such as…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Marin, California, United States. “This bird was languidly…

Dear readers, this is a story from my youth. (Or rather, it’s about when you were young, right?) Upon joining…

Turtle carvings suggest 37,000-year-old Middle Eastern religion EuroNews World’s oldest living crocodile celebrates 124th birthday Ynet Why the world’s economic…

Eve, here. I haven’t followed the story of the Azerbaijan airline crash closely, precisely because speculation has been so far…

Most people have heard of the thalidomide tragedy. Few people have heard that that tragedy led to an even greater…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am in post-Christmas post-prandial mode (brunch). I will post a full complement,…

In an age of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, what can an 18th-century Scottish philosopher tell us about its fundamental limitations?…