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Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner. … Continue readingCan We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
Ahmari grapples with Sunkara’s argument that social democracy lost worker support by prioritizing capital interests… … Continue readingSocial Democracy, Immigration and the Working Class
Project Syndicate: Last year, you suggested that a prevailing “culture of pragmatism,” exemplified by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), explains the lack of major wars in Asia in recent decades.
Continue readingKishore Mahbubani on the U.S.-China Rivalry and More
The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms. … Continue readingHow Can Poor Countries Become Rich
“The economists’ “groundbreaking research” has given us a “much deeper understanding of the root causes of why countries fail or succeed.” … Continue readingHow Colonial History Explains Why Strong Institutions Are Vital to a Country’s Prosperity
China now produces more than 90% of the world’s photovoltaic-grade polysilicon. Back in 2010, it was a minor player. … Continue readingHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China
Among the topics discussed is the nature of symbolic capital; whether self interest and political idealism are necessarily contradictory… … Continue readingThe Passion of the Elites
China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world. … Continue readingChina Builds a New Eurasia
Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? … Continue readingCan Plastic Waste Be Transformed Into Food For Humans?
Last week, researchers at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) released a new family of open-source multimodal models competitive with state-of-the-art models…. … Continue readingThese Mini AI Models Match OpenAI With 1,000 Times Less Data
Syed Rashid Husain at Dawn News: Toronto-based Energy Analyst Husain shares his outlook on how the Middle East’s regional economy has been affected over the past year by escalating conflict
Continue readingSyed Rashid Husain: “Conflict in Mideast Reshaping Regional Economy”
If artificial intelligence-created content floods the internet, who decides what online information is worth archiving? … Continue readingThe Challenge of Preserving Good Data in the Age of AI