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Sami Al-Daghistani
Often, we perceive economics as highly objective and functional science or system that is closely associated with material prosperity, economic development or progress, and consumption and transfer of wealth. We usually perceive economic science as being similar in nature to physics or biology, and given the modern division of sciences, such a view would not […]
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Shawn Bayern
Q: What led you to start thinking about how software or robots might get legal personhood? A: It was two things, really. On one side, I started noticing that significant activities within existing organizations had become entirely automated but still had legal effects. For example, I have a colleague who has no idea how much […]
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Julia K. Murray
In a rural area, now part of modern Shanghai, a 34th-generation descendant is alleged to have buried the robe and cap of Confucius (Kongzi; 551-479 BCE), over a thousand years after his death. Another thousand years later, highly educated local elites and government officials built a unique shrine for worshiping Confucius in this unlikely place, […]
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Abby Kinchy, Jessica Lehman
At COP26, nations will be pressured to commit more funds for climate change adaptation and resilience – to the tune of billions of dollars each year. Yet how adaptation and resilience are enacted at the community level is complicated, and relies heavily on local organisations, such as city planners and disaster response managers. In communities […]
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Nives Dolsak, Aseem Prakash
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of the $10 trillion financial giant, BlackRock, and an outspoken advocate for ESG investment, argues that rich countries (OECD + China, as per Fink’s classification) should annually provide $100 billion in climate mitigation aid to developing countries. He assesses that to […]
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Patrick Bayer, Federica Genovese
With COP less than two weeks away, one may wonder what the 26th round of the United Nations annual climate talks has in store. Media outlets from around the world, advocacy groups, and NGOs have come down hard on climate diplomats to have a renewed sense of urgency. The IPCC’s latest Assessment Report on the […]
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Stuart Casey-Maslen
Abdul Qadeer Khan, better known to the world as A. Q. Khan, passed away in October 2021 at the age of 85. Often referred to as the Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, and revered by many Pakistanis for this achievement, he is less fondly remembered internationally for having helped Iran, Libya, and North Korea in […]
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Boris Gindis
International adoption is not a modern invention: it has existed throughout known human history. But then something occurred that had never happened before in such a short period of time and on a such vast scale.
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Sami Al-Daghistani
Often, we perceive economics as highly objective and functional science or system that is closely associated with material prosperity, economic development or progress, and consumption and transfer of wealth. We usually perceive economic science as being similar in nature to physics or biology, and given the modern division of sciences, such a view would not […]
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Shawn Bayern
Q: What led you to start thinking about how software or robots might get legal personhood? A: It was two things, really. On one side, I started noticing that significant activities within existing organizations had become entirely automated but still had legal effects. For example, I have a colleague who has no idea how much […]
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Julia K. Murray
In a rural area, now part of modern Shanghai, a 34th-generation descendant is alleged to have buried the robe and cap of Confucius (Kongzi; 551-479 BCE), over a thousand years after his death. Another thousand years later, highly educated local elites and government officials built a unique shrine for worshiping Confucius in this unlikely place, […]
Read More
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Abby Kinchy, Jessica Lehman
At COP26, nations will be pressured to commit more funds for climate change adaptation and resilience – to the tune of billions of dollars each year. Yet how adaptation and resilience are enacted at the community level is complicated, and relies heavily on local organisations, such as city planners and disaster response managers. In communities […]
Read More
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Nives Dolsak, Aseem Prakash
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of the $10 trillion financial giant, BlackRock, and an outspoken advocate for ESG investment, argues that rich countries (OECD + China, as per Fink’s classification) should annually provide $100 billion in climate mitigation aid to developing countries. He assesses that to […]
Read More
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Patrick Bayer, Federica Genovese
With COP less than two weeks away, one may wonder what the 26th round of the United Nations annual climate talks has in store. Media outlets from around the world, advocacy groups, and NGOs have come down hard on climate diplomats to have a renewed sense of urgency. The IPCC’s latest Assessment Report on the […]
Read More
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Stuart Casey-Maslen
Abdul Qadeer Khan, better known to the world as A. Q. Khan, passed away in October 2021 at the age of 85. Often referred to as the Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, and revered by many Pakistanis for this achievement, he is less fondly remembered internationally for having helped Iran, Libya, and North Korea in […]
Read More
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Boris Gindis
International adoption is not a modern invention: it has existed throughout known human history. But then something occurred that had never happened before in such a short period of time and on a such vast scale.
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