Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Bitcoin is not money
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29 Apr 2014Until I spoke on a panel on technology at a recent event in London I did not appreciate the passions evoked by Bitcoin. For many libertarians Bitcoin, along with other digital currencies, provides a way to exercise freedom by allowing users to circumvent the bureaucratic power of governments and central banks. It does this by […]
- Tags: finance, Fund Strategy, speeches, technology
A hi-tech Malthusianism
13 Apr 2014My review of Tyler Cowen’s Average Is Over: Powering America beyond the age of the Great Stagnation (Dutton) was published on the spiked review of books on Friday. Suppose you go on a date and are faced with that perennially tricky question: does the other person fancy me? The answer is not always easy to […]
- Tags: book, Malthus, review, spiked, technology
Speaking at Freedom Forum
5 Apr 2014I am delighted to be speaking on the opening keynote panel at the Liberty League Freedom Forum in London next weekend. Tickets are available here.
- Tags: speeches, technology
Cover story on British manufacturing
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30 May 2013This is my cover story from last week’s Fund Strategy magazine. Note that, since I quote many people, not all opinions included in this article are mine. In his March 2011 budget speech the chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, put forward a vivid vision of how the British economy could return to growth. The […]
- Tags: Britain, economics, Fund Strategy, Germany, technology
The end of work?
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11 Mar 2013This is a box attached to my cover story from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. The debate about robots, particularly their purported negative effects, has close parallels with discussions of the end of work. In itself the reduction in working hours or the elimination of work entirely can be seen as either welcome or as […]
- Tags: Fund Strategy, technology, work
Cover story on robots
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11 Mar 2013This is the main text of my cover story from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. A box is to follow in a separate post. The Hollywood film Robot & Frank, which came out in the UK earlier this month, illustrates vividly how torn society is about the use of robots. In the near future a […]
- Tags: America, economics, Fund Strategy, inequality, technology
Technocrats deride democracy
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11 Feb 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. An event on economics has seldom shocked me so much. The public launch of the “Manifesto for Growth” at the London School of Economics (LSE) came across as blatantly disdainful of the public and the democratic process. My reading of the report’s central argument […]
- Tags: Britain, environment, finance, Fund Strategy, growth, technology
The rise of the machines
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19 Dec 2012The counter-attack has begun. High profile experts are using robots to fight back against the claim that technological innovation has slumped. Paul Krugman, a New York Times (NYT) columnist and Nobel laureate, is the best known. In his column on December 9 he argued that “there’s no question that in some high-profile industries, technology is […]
- Tags: economics, Fund Strategy, technology
Much pain for little gain
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31 Oct 2012Watching two eminent economists in conversation I was struck by how much current economic debates lean on a one-sided interpretation of the Great Depression. Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz were speaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. The two have a lot in common: Nobel prizes, Ivy League professorships, immensely high public […]
- Tags: America, economics, technology
Human ingenuity can beat stasis
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10 Sep 2012This Perspective column was first published in today’s edition of Fund Strategy. Although the claim that America has entered a “new normal” of low economic growth has become commonplace the argument is usually crude. A new paper* by Robert Gordon, a professor at Northwestern university in Chicago, is an important exception. He puts forward a […]
- Tags: America, Fund Strategy, growth, technology
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