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What makes for a good economic system? How do we fix flaws in the system like inequality? The winners of the most recent Nobel Prize in Economics attempted to answer these questions: James Robinson of ...

When asked how they identify their social class 54% of Americans said they belong to the middle class, according to one survey.

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Nearly 6 in 10 voters say the economic and political systems are stacked against people like them, tying a record high over roughly 40 years of national NBC News polling. According to the latest NBC ...

Altman’s new blueprint outlines robot taxes, public wealth funds, and automatic safety nets to manage AI’s economic disruption. As Sam Altman races to build superintelligent AI systems, he’s also ...

Autonomous economic agents are software agents that act on behalf of their owners with limited or no interference, specifically focused on generating economic value. These agents operate independently ...

It’s time to change the metric by which much of the world traditionally measures economic wellbeing: gross domestic product (GDP). The drive for steadily higher GDP growth is fueling environmental ...

“Systems change” has become a ubiquitous topic of interest for anyone serious about addressing our multiple social-environmental-economic-governance crises. Yet for all its ubiquity, the term tends to ...

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