Economy
- 3 future industry trends: space travel, life extension and AI
Three industries to watch over ~50 years: reusable spaceflight, personalised life extension, and problem-solving AI systems.
- Taxation on robots
Ageing Europe and AI-driven job loss threaten the pension tax base. Robot taxes are one option—if we redesign growth to stay shared.
- Smart cities?
Smart-city tools fix traffic and queues—but housing shows digital markets can worsen scarcity. Cities need APIs that enforce planning.
- What would be the last job on Earth?
If machines take most work, what is the last job? Creativity and the evolving idea of a “job” may matter more than any final title.
- What economic growth is (2019 update)
World GDP per capita rose ~2.7× from 1960–2014. Growth tracks science and energy—and must still translate into real social progress.
- Should we stay where we are?
Corporate careers once felt safe. Technology and automation are rewriting that bargain. Should you stay — or prepare an exit while you still can?
- Constants in the economy
Economics lacks what physics found in Einstein’s constants: a fixed reference that unites scarcity and abundance. What if that constant were the Earth itself?
- Why first-world nations should watch third-world growth: an answer to Krugman
Krugman on developing-world growth is right in nominal terms — but relative ranks, capital outflows, and scarce money change the story.
- Peter Diamandis on TED: Abundance is our future
Peter Diamandis’s TED talk on abundance — a bridge between economic growth and the new private space race.
- Meritocracy versus liberalism
Liberalism assumes equal starting conditions; inheritance and networks say otherwise. Merit needs deliberate educational design.
- How I understand economic growth
Growth measured in work-hours, three classic models, and why the long-run data look more like unlimited ingenuity than Malthus.