Sergei Guriev
assesses the strength of the Russian president’s grip on power, predicts that Xi Jinping’s embrace of personalist rule will lead to policy missteps, urges the West to pursue a strategy of “adversarial engagement” toward modern dictators, and more.
Artificial intelligence is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience, ultimately disappointing most investors. Yet economic history shows that it does not have to be this way.
worry that the technology will be deployed to replace, rather than empower, humans.
洛杉矶——伊丽莎白二世女王逝世恰逢亚当·斯密诞辰三百周年,这在2022年发生的一系列改变历史的大事中,可能看似一个不起眼的注脚。而且,看起来这两位英国著名人物似乎也没什么关系;毕竟,斯密更常与玛格丽特·撒切尔产生联系,后者据说曾将一本斯密的国富论放在自己的手袋里。但斯密更像是一位人文主义者而非撒切尔主义者。像已故的女王一样,他致力于通过宣传斯多葛派理想来创造一个幸福、和平、繁荣且仁慈的社会。
当斯密颂扬斯多葛式的责任时,他完全可以是在描述伊丽莎白二世,后者听起来似乎很少与自由市场经济学家有任何共同之处。斯密谴责贪婪、不信任私人企业,并且相信他所珍视的价值观最能体现在以无私服务于国家为主要目标的土地所有者身上。在他看来,这种安排非常适合维护政治自由和自由市场。
无论是否钦佩已故的女王,人们都很难否认,乡村生活的节奏和对国家的严苛义务都是她所热爱的。她视自己的角色为可以团结英国社会的顾问,从而允许市场可以自由平稳地运作。
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