Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?
Aug 03, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
As a student I was taught (and this will date me) that macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole) was essentially governed by two alternative views Keynesianism and Monetarism. Keynesians believed that the...
Why executions in Indonesia must stop
Aug 03, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Indonesia executed four prisoners on death row for drug offences early on Friday. Last weeks killings were the third round of executions under Joko Widodos government, and were carried out despite ongoing legal appeals and...
It's not 'corporate poaching' – it's a free market for brilliant people
Aug 03, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy
When Uber decided to develop its own self-driving car, it went big. The company came to Carnegie Mellon University, the epicenter for autonomous driving research for three decades, and hired away four professors and 36...
Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders
Aug 03, 2016 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As we watch Bernie Sanders supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why leftists are involved in the Democratic Party in the first place. It started in...
Can 'climate corridors' help species adapt to warming world?
Aug 03, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the...
Sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
Aug 03, 2016 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Sofosbuvir is one of a number of new direct-acting antiviral drugs revolutionising the care of people living with hepatitis C. Combinations of two or three hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral drugs taken for 8-24...
Museum economics: how the contemporary art boom is hurting the bottom line
Aug 03, 2016 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
Americans clearly love their museums, particularly in the summer months. In fact, museum attendance is estimated at about 850 million visits a year, significantly more than all the major league sporting and theme parks...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects