Economics

One question for Brett Hollenbeck, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

How “blue bonds” turn national debt into funds for marine conservation.

Putting a price tag on the ocean might just save it.

Global solutions, like the greening of the world’s financial system, begin with the right story.

Evolution favors less work and more leisure.

Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.

You don’t have to be entirely pessimistic about the future of wealth inequality.

A prominent evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism.

In a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from 2007, Larry David and his wife Cheryl and their friends attend a ceremony to celebrate his public donation to the National Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental advocacy group. Little does he know that the actor Ted Danson, his arch-frenemy, also donated money, but anonymously. “Now it looks […]

In America, people who lose jobs don’t necessarily get them back.

Capitalism in space.

What finance will look like when it is controlled by machines.

In a WTF with Marc Maron podcast episode from 2012, musical comedian Bo Burnham said his fortune felt unreal, as if his life were a futuristic VR game. “I could die, take off a helmet, and, look: It’s the Bo Burnham 2000. There’s a whole line of people crying waiting in line,” he told Maron. […]