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Losing jobs isn’t the only thing workers have to worry about. AI may make many jobs worse.

In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert M.T. Connolly, who served as coordinator of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, offers both a warning and challenge: the systems we rely on to protect us as we age haven’t caught up to our longevity. Good news: we have the tools to build better ones.

By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems

Smith did not advocate a single-minded pursuit of profit

Besides changes in institutions and social norms, other phenomena could explain a rise in the profit share.

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?

Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs

The explanation of systematic breakdowns in supervisory oversight over time must include the shift in Federal Reserve culture during and after the 1990s

On the passing away of Edward J. Kane