Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “economics”

Why your government isn't acting on the Corona/COVID-19 threat

ma.ttias.be/government-act-corona-covid-19/

Why Are Rich People So Mean? | WIRED

wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/

“Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle | CityMetric

citymetric.com/transport/birmingham-isn-t-big-city-peak-times-how-poor-public-transport-explains-uk-s-productivity

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

Opinion | The Economics of Soaking the Rich - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-policy-dance.html

La tragédie des communs était un mythe | CNRS Le journal

lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/la-tragedie-des-communs-etait-un-mythe

La propriété commune d’une ressource conduit nécessairement à la ruine de celle-ci, concluait en 1968 un biologiste dans la revue Science. Son article, « La tragédie des communs », a façonné les raisonnements économiques et politiques de ces dernières décennies. L’historien Fabien Locher nous expose les enjeux de ce débat et en souligne les limites dans le cadre d’une pensée de l’environnement. Ce Point de Vue fait partie du Top 10 des articles les plus lus sur notre site cette année...

The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it | Brett Scott | Opinion | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/cashless-society-con-big-finance-banks-closing-atms

Will Robots Take My Job?

willrobotstakemyjob.com/

Damn Interesting

damninteresting.com/

A collection of fascinating true stories from history, science, and psychology. In text and podcast form.

[sriramk.com] - Building something no one else can measure

sriramk.com/building-unmeasurable-things

Why people prefer unequal societies : Nature Human Behaviour

nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082

Inequality and unfairness are not the same thing. Starmans, Sheskin and Bloom summarize evidence showing that people are bothered not by economic inequality, but rather by economic unfairness.

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware - Motherboard

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

It Is Expensive to Be Poor - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/

Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.

How to set up a Workers' Co-op

radicalroutes.org.uk/publicdownloads/setupaworkerscoop-lowres.pdf

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...