Mission to Mars: How humans could spoil the Utopia
The rockets and engineers are gearing up for departure, but with the technological challenges in mind we easily forget that the true obsta..
Criticizing Capital: Has Piketty got it wrong on inequality?
With his 700-page Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the French economist has fundamentally influenced how we think about modern inequal..
“A universal basic income is the logical next step”
For its enemies, the unconditional basic income is expensive, distorting and utterly unfair: A free lunch for the uneducated and lazy. How..
Money for the masses: Basic income and its discontents
The future of social welfare or a refuge for the lazy? About the difficulty of reconciling supporters and opponents of a universal basic i..
Austria’s presidential elections, and the end of politics*
*as we have known it.
The surprising battle between a populist-right and an environmentalist candidate in the Austrian presidential elect..
Never trust an economist! Lessons from the 2008 crisis
In his new book, the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang argues that we should overthrow and re-adapt all our economic wisdoms. But can such..
Automation of the labour market: grim predictions
How machines are taking over your job and transforming our society. The latest predictions from the Davos report, following this year’s Wo..