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pstonge (44)in #economics • 8 years ago
Have Humans Really "Used all the Resources for the Year?"
And this is why more journalists should learn basic economics: Motherboard weighs in with "Humans have used all the earth's resources for the year." The article is worried…
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pstonge (44)in #marketing • 8 years ago
Yes, marketers sell us shit we don't need. Deal with it.
A lefty friend was upset about advertisers who "sell us shit we don't need." To use a technical marketing term, demand "agitation." This has, of course, been a common left-wing…
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pstonge (44)in #robots • 8 years ago
Will the Robots take all the Jobs?
The job-threatening rise of the machines is an economically illiterate meme that refuses to die. We’re actually probably in the early stages of it, a bull-market in luddism, if…
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pstonge (44)in #sci-fi • 8 years ago
Will Economics End Innovation?
Is innovation slowing? Will it stop? A new paper by one Jonathan Huebner in the journal “Technological Forecasting & Social Change” argues that innovation is slowing, indeed that…
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pstonge (44)in #intro • 8 years ago
Hi, I'm Peter St Onge
I'm an Austrian School economist, teach at a business school in Taiwan, and blog at profitsofchaos.com. I used to be a hedge fund manager and worked in corporate sales and…
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