Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Will AI Replace Human Labour? Revisiting a Question I First Asked in 2015

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  In 2015, I wrote an essay entitled, “Will robots replace human labour and reduce real wage levels?” That essay still seems to attract qui...
Thursday, July 2, 2026

Can reliable international comparisons of human flourishing be made using subjective survey data?

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  The idea that human flourishing is the proper measure of a good society goes back to Aristotle, but modern attempts to compare flourishing...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Does human perfectibility pose a problem?

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  This essay was prompted by my reading of John Passmore ’s book, The Perfectibility of Man , which was first published in 1969.  I read the...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

What was wrong with the Washington Consensus?

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  Just as I was reading the final chapters of William Easterly’s book, Violent Saviours : The West, the Rest, and Capitalism Without Consent...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Part VIII: Summary and Conclusions

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This is the final essay of a series exploring the topic: What impact does political entrepreneurship have on freedom and flourishing? The ...

Part VII: What kind of political entrepreneurship is required?

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  This essay is one of a series exploring the topic: What impact does political entrepreneurship have on freedom and flourishing? The seri...