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By Nafeez Ahmed

This is the second part of the series “AI, Blockchain and the Decentralization of Work”. In the original article I explored the emergence…

A look into the spaces where young people mock the “boring dystopia” that capitalism has built

The agency is expected to make this change in February, which will make America's broadband situation look better than it actually is.

Statement for endorsement: We have drawn up the following statement on basic income (BI). It makes the case that, progressive hopes to the contrary notwithstanding, BI is being developed as a measu…

It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a g…

German cultural values do not center on individual wealth, recognition, or even careers.

In their new book, Eric Posner and Glen Weyl imagine a world where everything is always for sale, including a migrant's right to live and work abroad.

The YouTube algorithm that I helped build in 2011 still recommends the flat earth theory by the *hundreds of millions*. This investigation by @RawStory shows some of the real-life consequences of this badly designed AI. https://t.co/rAi9sqAYYM— Guillaume Chaslot (@gchaslot) November 19, 2018

"Maintenance has taken on new resonance as a theoretical framework, an ethos, a methodology, and a political cause."This beautiful piece on maintenance talks to me on so many levels... https://t.co/IhZdrnx8Pg— Mathieu Jacomy (@jacomyma) November 21, 2018

For Silicon Valley: “..or better yet, to find new revenue streams that don’t rely on commodifying people’s private behavior. This is all the more important because people can’t meaningfully opt out.”—@MarechalPhD does a deep dive! https://t.co/70suItN3to— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) November 18, 2018

Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.

Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.

"Their existence is not about being lonely. It is about blaming women for their loneliness."

More than 20 tech luminaries, including Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Wozniak, have urged the FCC to stop its plan to repeal net neutrality.

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Web Summit founder rows back on Le Pen invitation ‘based on advice’

Marxism lives because we have not gone beyond the circumstances that created it.

The time is ripe for a movement to replace flawed mainstream economics...but what must it do to succeed?

U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?

Dubai’s secretive offshore financial system seems to play a role in almost every international corruption scandal. Why?

What advice would Elinor Ostrom, first female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics and theorist of 'the commons', offer to Jeremy Corbyn?

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Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?

The political economist on Trump’s election, why we should be happy about Brexit and the crises facing western democracy