Art and Culture
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AI Raises the Value of What It Can’t Replicate
From Broadway to the workplace, people pay a premium for what technology cannot reproduce. AI may make distinctly human qualities more valuable, not less.
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Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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Put Money on It? The Social Value of Prediction Markets
Prediction markets reveal which beliefs people are actually willing to risk money on — and generate valuable information in the process.
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What the Olympics Really Cost: Rio’s 10-Year Legacy of Debt and Destruction
Rio 2016, like many ambitious projects, combined political cronyism and weak market discipline. Ordinary Brazilians are still paying the bill.
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Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.
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The Case for Talking to Strangers
Nicholas Epley’s new book argues that small acts of connection build the trust and goodwill on which a free society depends.
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The Baseball Tax That Made the Great Depression Worse
Nothing’s more American than baseball and taxes, but combining the two in 1932 cost millions their affordable day out.
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Immigrants Build America’s Most Valuable Companies
Visa holders founded half of today’s Fortune 500 companies and a majority of billion-dollar startups. Current restrictions damage that competitive advantage and choke off future growth.
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Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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The Unexpected Afterlife of Private Wealth
Private fortunes outlive their owners. The gardens, architecture, ideas, and institutions they finance often become part of the public inheritance.
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AI Raises the Value of What It Can’t Replicate
From Broadway to the workplace, people pay a premium for what technology cannot reproduce. AI may make distinctly human qualities more valuable, not less.
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•
Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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•
Put Money on It? The Social Value of Prediction Markets
Prediction markets reveal which beliefs people are actually willing to risk money on — and generate valuable information in the process.
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•
What the Olympics Really Cost: Rio’s 10-Year Legacy of Debt and Destruction
Rio 2016, like many ambitious projects, combined political cronyism and weak market discipline. Ordinary Brazilians are still paying the bill.
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•
Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.
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•
The Case for Talking to Strangers
Nicholas Epley’s new book argues that small acts of connection build the trust and goodwill on which a free society depends.
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•
The Baseball Tax That Made the Great Depression Worse
Nothing’s more American than baseball and taxes, but combining the two in 1932 cost millions their affordable day out.
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•
Immigrants Build America’s Most Valuable Companies
Visa holders founded half of today’s Fortune 500 companies and a majority of billion-dollar startups. Current restrictions damage that competitive advantage and choke off future growth.
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•
Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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•
The Unexpected Afterlife of Private Wealth
Private fortunes outlive their owners. The gardens, architecture, ideas, and institutions they finance often become part of the public inheritance.