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Column: AI culture will be weirder than you can imagine
The future of AI and what it produces is likely to hinge on the price of energy, which will in turn shape the culture, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen writes.
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Column: Contributions show partisan trends across the economy
Evidence from campaign contributions indicates that some professions are more right- or left-leaning than others, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen writes.
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Column: How can the world make immigration work? Ask Canada
For Canada, and other Western nations, the choice is not so much between more and less immigration, but rather a lot of immigration now or a lot later, Bloomberg Opinion columnist...
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Column: How were so many economists so wrong about the recession?
How did so many economists miss the mark when predicting the near certainty of a recession, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen asks.
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Opinion: America’s greatest policy success is in jeopardy
A program that fights AIDS in Africa, an American success, has unfairly come under fire, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen writes.
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Opinion: Are UFOs a threat to national security?
Recent hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena signals a new openness to seriously discussing the implications of unexplained objects, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen writes.
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Opinion: The only two pieces of advice you’ll ever need
As a writer, podcaster and economist — not necessarily in that order — I receive numerous emails asking for advice. People ask for my opinion not only on economic questions,...
Opinion: The explanation for seemingly irrational COVID behavior
Many reactions to COVID-19 can be explained by one simple concept: intertemporal substitution. Its awkward name notwithstanding, the idea helps to make sense of many behaviors that otherwise might appear...
Opinion: America is not as woke as it appears
It is sometimes called "Conquest's Second Law of Politics": "Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing." I am hearing this more and more lately,...
Opinion: Which vaccine did you get? It’s a fraught question
In matters of human affairs, there is little stranger than our tendency to draw fine distinctions of style and status where none are needed. We do it with hats, with...