By Dr. Julián de Diego, Libertad y Progreso The dehumanizing process of HR sectors at corporations has begun. It is a metamorphosis that implies the application of exponential technologies to replace human labor through artificial intelligence. As a result of the accelerated pace of digitalization imposed on all activities by the pandemic, the […]
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Why waiving intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines is wrong
By Philip Stevens, Geneva Network Last week the United States unexpectedly announced that it would join India, South Africa and others in supporting a proposal at the World Trade Organization to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines. In theory, this would free up other companies to make copies of proprietary vaccines […]
Humanized Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Market. Check It Out!
By Instituto Millenium, Brazil The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly common in our daily lives in the most diverse ways, whether to log in to a social network through facial recognition, for companies to optimize service, or even for autonomous cars. However, although AI appears to be efficient, the […]
Greenland’s Welfare Trap Replays in Canada
By Peter Holle, Frontier Centre For Public Policy This month, there was an unusual amount of international attention given to the Greenland election. This is a vast country with a tiny population of only 50,000. Every year, Denmark transfers $700 million to help fund Greenland’s government. This is a huge amount of […]
How the Private Sector Could Help to Fight the Next Pandemic
By Haig Simonian, Avenir Suisse Hindsight, it is said, offers 20:20 vision. With the Coronavirus pandemic now into its second year, experts and governments around the world have become much savvier about how to deal with an international health crisis. If that knowledge could be harnessed to tackle the next pandemic – which […]
Biden’s Programs Would Fail for Many Reasons
By Chris Edwards, Cato President Biden is proposing to expand federal intervention in many areas that are the responsibility of state and local governments and the private sector. His $2.3 trillion jobs plan would subsidize broadband, automobiles, the electric grid, manufacturing, highways, transit, water systems, and much else. His $1.8 trillion families plan […]
Congress Misses the Mark on the INFORM Act
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute On March 23, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers (INFORM Consumers) Act. If the INFORM Act becomes law, it would “direct online retail marketplaces…to authenticate the identity […]
COVID-19 forces us ask what “Public Interest” really means
“A Few Comments on the Public Interest and Its Meaning” By Kurt R. Leube, courtesy of ECAEF “People who intend only to seek their own benefit are led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People […]
Low income households suffer the most from lockdowns
Courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center The coronavirus has dominated all of our lives in recent months. Radical paths were taken by politicians in the form of lockdowns to contain the pandemic. But we should recognize that even if the coronavirus is a (major) challenge for us, we always have to keep a holistic […]
Mob Rule Is No Path to Liberty
By Peter Goettler, Cato Institute Yesterday, Congress was violently disrupted as it performed its constitutional duty. This was a direct attack on the Constitution of the United States, the rule of law, and our constitutional republic. For more than two months President Trump has claimed, without plausible evidence and through multiple recounts and court […]