Blog Post | Adoption of Technology
Bitcoin Brought Electricity to Countries in the Global South
It won’t be the United Nations or rich philanthropists that electrifies Africa.
Joakim Book
Blog Post | Science & Technology
AI, Tractors, and the Slow Diffusion of Labor-Saving Devices
Productivity and economic growth are a tide that lifts all boats, whether we're talking about agricultural machinery or ChatGPT.
Technology, Not Politics or Penance, Solves Climate Change
Is it finally time for the carbon capture revolution?
Blog Post | Conservation & Biodiversity
Can Finance Save the Wolves?
Economics informs us that unsolvable societal disputes don’t have to become political wrestling matches.
Blog Post | Health & Demographics
Dear Americans, Define “Worse Off”
American declinism is a compelling political narrative, but what does the economic data have to say about it?
Blog Post | Science & Technology
Have Our Screens Been the Only Major Tech Achievement since the 1970s?
What Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel leave out of their great tech stagnation narrative.
Blog Post | Environment & Pollution
The Amazon Forest Is Not About to Disappear
The Amazon is not nearly gone, a dead zone, or otherwise vanishing anytime soon.
Blog Post | Environment & Pollution
Are Low-Lying Islands Helpless in the Face of Sea Level Rise?
Despite gradual sea level rise, the most low-lying island nations on the planet are growing in land area.