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By Mark Buchanan
Articles from the author
Magical thinking won’t stop climate change
Assumptions about negative carbon emissions amount to a bizarre step in what ought to be a cautious and conservative analysis
2m read
EU may be too inflexible to survive
Uncompromising attempts to bind Europe together may instead hasten its abrupt and unmanageable dissolution, with unknown consequences
3m read
The spectre of wealth inequality
Today’s wealth inequality probably is not the result of any economic conspiracy
3m read
Why we fear spiders more than climate change
Information campaigns could be far more effective in changing behaviour than policies targeting the calculating mind through monetary incentives
3m read
Modern finance violates principle of hierarchy
High concentration of big banks and interlinked derivatives is a sure recipe for instability
4m read
What happens when technology gets out of hand
There is a probability that technology can become so complex and start evolving so rapidly that humans can’t imagine the consequences of some new action
3m read
We still don’t know how bad can Ebola be
Ebola is not solely a biological problem
3m read
Why fake news spreads so quickly on Facebook
Ad technology has weaponised disinformation
3m read
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