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The Future of the U.S. Economy: Apple, Exxon, and Robots - Megan McArdle - Business - T... - 0 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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The Verge interview: David Carr on curation, crowdsourcing, and the future of journalis... - 0 views

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What Export-Oriented America Means - Tyler Cowen - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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Tyler Cowen on America's Future, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty - 0 views

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Will · Really thought-provoking talk from danah boyd,... - 0 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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Washington Post on productivity - Mandel on Innovation and Growth - 0 views

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

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Yesterday the Washington Post had a great piece in the business section entitled "Economists offer more pessimistic view on manufacturing in upcoming report."</div>

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Everything you can imagine is real. - Andy Haldane, the Bank's executive director for... - 0 views

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Paul Mason - Kicking Off the Revolution | Peter Geoghegan - 0 views

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'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.'

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"> '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.'</div>

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BBC News - Has the internet sparked an educational revolution? - 0 views

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

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Overcoming Bias : For Useful Computers, You Have To Fire People - 0 views

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Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee | The Race vs. the Stagna... - 0 views

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

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Two economists offer opposite explanations about why job growth in the United States and other developed economies remains extremely weak.</div>

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Three questions to Judy Klein | Institute for New Economic Thinking - 0 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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