There’s a Much Smarter Way for Cities to Plan Their Futures
Why the “smart cities” movement needs to adopt better goals and metrics.
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The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...Whole Foods Becomes Amazon Hell Foods as Employees, Managers Quit, Cry on the Job….and These People Want to Run Your Healthcare?
Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Increasing Minimum Wages Does More to Reduce Recidivism Than Prisoner Reentry Programs
Sometimes social engineering is easier than you think, as a new study on income incentives and recidivism shows.
Read more...How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement
How black business owners helped support the Civil Rights campaign in the US.
Read more...Labour Scarcity and Labour Coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
Institutions are widely viewed as a fundamental cause of economic performance. But what are the causes of institutions?
Read more...Why Pretty Much Everything You Know About Depression Is Wrong
A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...Social Media, the “Dopamine Loop,” and the Role of the Software Engineer
Thoughts on the social media and the “dopamine loop”, and the role of the software engineer in creating it.
Read more...What Happens at a Death Café?
Americans are particularly leery of thinking about, let alone talking about, death. Some people are trying to change that.
Read more...The Link Between Neoliberalism, Perfectionism, and Mental Health Disorders
Perfectionism is rising among the young, and that’s not a good thing.
Read more...How to Create Collective Intelligence
How can humans increase the “intelligence” with which they operate?
Read more...California’s “Marijuana Revolution” (and $5 Billion Industry), and Cory Booker Does the Right Thing
Big Pharma moves in after California legalizes marijuana, as do the unions, and Cory Booker’s surprisingly good decriminalization bill.
Read more...As the Tourists Return, Half of Puerto Rico Remains Without Power, Thanks to PROMESA, while Workers Leave, and Vulture Capital Circles
The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
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