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Tyler Cowen has a nice essay up at The American Interest on an Export-Oriented America. He offers us three reasons to be optimistic about the US export future: artificial intelligence, shale oil and gas, and a rising Asian Middle Class. I think he more or less nails the last two, what I refer as the Exxon and Apple economies, respectively.

L et's first take a step back and see where these new American exports will be coming from. At least three forces are likely to combine to make the United States an export powerhouse.

Really thought-provoking talk from danah boyd, primarily about how in the competition for attention we want to promote fear, and that social media perpetuates this.

Yesterday the Washington Post had a great piece in the business section entitled  "Economists offer more pessimistic view on manufacturing in upcoming report."

'We're in the middle of a revolution caused by the near collapse of free-market capitalism combined with an upswing in technical innovation, a surge in desire for individual freedom and a change in consciousness about what freedom means.'

The BBC's Matt Danzico investigates what place traditional academic institutions have in a world consumed by do-it-yourself education.

Two economists offer opposite explanations about why job growth in the United States and other developed economies remains extremely weak.

how US military needs during World War II and the Cold War steered engineers and applied mathematicians to an economic way of thinking about scarce resources, including limited computational resources, and how economists subsequently incorporated that mathematics.

Increased levels of connectivity are rendering economic rules obsolete.

But we idealize America's present culture of innovation too much. In fact, our trailblazing digital firms may not be the hothouse environments for creativity we might think. 

The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams

The lessons from an infant industry, including the power of cooperation and importance of regulating with a light touch

Will the evolution of the internet reduce or increase cognitive inequality? The answer may not be so straightforward.