Berfrois

Turgotonomics

Turgotonomics

Markets need much more tending and plenty of governmental care. The French found this out the hard way...

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Ordinary people may become fledgling financiers of computer records…

Ordinary people may become fledgling financiers of computer records…

Now the digital exhaust of all that life online is poised to become an asset class for speculative investment...

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Order! Order!

Order! Order!

The first line of inquiry I would like to develop connects to a central point Foucault makes in his reading of German Ordoliberalism...

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Environmental Co-Benefits of Fossil Fuel Sanctions on Russia

Environmental Co-Benefits of Fossil Fuel Sanctions on Russia

The adverse impacts of restricting fossil fuel exports on the Russian economy would be overwhelming...

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Surveillance Advertising Space

Surveillance Advertising Space

Clinton’s ‘New Democrats’ were eager to partner up with the private sector to draft the first comprehensive set of internet policies...

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Generational Carbon Pricing

Generational Carbon Pricing

The role of carbon policy was to keep ‘single agents’ from free-riding on one another...

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Cow Banker

Cow Banker

At first, users paid real money for the upkeep of virtual chickens, sheep, bees, and cattle, earning cash back in the game by keeping the animals alive. Riding high on the good publicity, Farm Bank soon went one step further, launching real-life farms...

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Supply-Side Innovations and the Opioid Cycle

Supply-Side Innovations and the Opioid Cycle

There are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions...

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The industrial revolution was the turning point in global history…

The industrial revolution was the turning point in global history…

In the bigger picture, the economic history of Britain since the mid 19th century is, inevitably, a history of relative economic decline...

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Mine, Mine, Mine

Mine, Mine, Mine

To the vast majority of bitcoin investors, success means its price continues to rise. But if that is all there is to it, someday a little boy will yell, "the Emperor has no clothes", and the price will come crashing down...

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Newton and the Mint

Newton and the Mint

The currency was literally shrinking, and Newton’s first task was to sort the situation out. Making his life still more complicated, international values were based on silver, but the value of gold was soaring...

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