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There are some cultural references that don’t work anymore – the scene in some sentimental old black-and-white movie – the retirement party. The beaming boss presents the pleasant old fellow, retiring after a lifetime of good work in the company – the...

Swarm Economy: The industrial model with lifetime single-employer careers is dying, and it is not coming back. The first sign was a change from lifetime-marriage employments into its serial-monogamy equivalent, where people change jobs every three...

The fifth annual Meaning Conference sold out Brighton’s Corn Exchange last Thursday with its bravest and most compelling event yet. The choice of journalist Paul Mason as guest director was set from the start to be something special, and contributed...

Special report: Artificial intelligence Education and policy Re-educating Rita The Economist | 25 June 2016 IN JULY 2011 Sebastian Thrun, who among other things is a professor at Stanford, posted a short video on YouTube, announcing that he and a...

safety net (Photo by Chad) (CC BY) (Resized/Cropped) Are good Middle Class jobs an endangered species? If so is the solution to that for the taxpayers to send almost everyone $10,000/year tax free? As described in my accompanying column Andy Stern...