Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Another Trump enabler pays the price

The Left must reject Neoliberal Political Framing. Taxes do not pay for government spending. Taxes are a consequence of spending.

Crude economics doesn’t explain what just happened

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was a prominent analytic philosopher in the generation after Russell and Moore. Stebbing was highly influential on the post-war gene…

Millions of physical books are being scanned to train AI models. They’re then dumped in the trash.

An essay by Adam Tooze and Stefan Eich

Climate change will be a serious headwind to GDP. But the strength of that headwind will depend on where you are, what you do (and what you'll do about it).

Reflecting on the Italian fascism of his childhood some 60 years prior, Umberto Eco remarks that “behind a regime and its ideology there is always a way of thi…

The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown...

Birdsong motifs are shaped by evolutionary history, biological traits, and environmental constraints

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic

YouTube video by Kaltweis

August 21, 2019 – In the thirties, both Jean-Paul Sartre and Walter Benjamin experimented with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.

If extraterrestrial intelligent beings exist and have reached a high level of technical development, one by-product of their energy metabolism is likely to be the large-scale conversion of starlight i...

Martin Wilkinson’s book The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism is a normative analysis of paternalistic governmental policies within liberal...

Robert Brandom has long advocated an approach to language and logic based on a unique combination of inferentialism and expressivism. While inferentiali...

   

The NGFS takes note of the withdrawal of the US Federal Reserve Board from its membership. The NGFS regrets but respects this decision to leave its “coalition of the willing“. The Fed was the 96th mem...

Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, and the unemployment rate has been little

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