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July 2023
The rebuilding macroeconomic theory project: Keynes
Among the once unquestionable beliefs that may now take a new meaning is the idea of the economy as a living organism. It is not an insignificant idea…
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Bruno Maçães
The Taiwan Conundrum
We recently attended a workshop on the future of Taiwan with a delegation of very senior scholars from China coordinated and led by Tsinghua University…
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Where the Sun Never Sets: Towards a Solar Civilization
I argued in Geopolitics for the End Time that what we saw during the pandemic, a race against every other country, often drawing a form of perverse…
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May 2023
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Electricity and the American century: of all forms of energy electricity is the most modern, and the most virtual
In the twentieth century, “increases in all forms of energy use made the United States the most highly powered society in world history” (David Nye…
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The underworld, a system of modern energetics
The twentieth century brought about a different kind of civilisation. What kind of civilisation? Vaclav Smil devoted most of his life work and thousands…
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April 2023
The search for virtual energy. Sources of the energy transition
Energy sources take two main forms: energy flows and energy fuels. Energy flows are streams of energy, while energy fuels are substances whose molecular…
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Resident agent: we are creating an AI to live inside the internet, or how we got to AI by giving up on the world
We can think of intelligence as a simulator. Given a certain number of inputs, an agent is able to predict which outputs will normally follow. The…
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Will the yuan replace the dollar?
Countries and investors will not hold yuan reserves if they cannot easily purchase and sell them in international markets and on prices determined in…
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The game world
In his report to Congress in 1981, Secretary of Defence Harold Brown coined a new term, one that would in time acquire a storied legacy. He explained…
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March 2023
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