Tag: economics

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| November 21, 2016

the asymptote of utopia

I just re-read Kim Stanley Robinson’s magnificent Mars trilogy — about which I hope to teach a class someday —...

| June 21, 2015

on sustainability

Makoko neighborhood, Lagos Lagoon Ross Douthat writes: It’s possible to believe that climate change is happening...

| November 27, 2013

the rich are different

In his great autobiographical essay “Such, Such Were the Joys,” George Orwell remembers his schooldays: There never...

| October 11, 2013

pay the writer?

Philip Hensher has a point: Frustration spilled out on Facebook after a University of Cambridge professor of modern...