Academic economists have missed the entire consolidation of industry that has happened in America and spreading worldwide. This is particularly clear in tech where the top 5 giants are bigger than most countries and growing bigger.
Nation states are increasingly powerless against big tech.
This will be the defining issue of our times.
Steven Weinberg, one of the greatest thinkers of our age, has died. With an astounding ability to see into the deep workings of nature, Steve profoundly shaped our understanding of the universe. His passing is a colossal loss to science and the world.
Oh no. One of the best physicists we had; one of the best thinkers of any variety. Steven Weinberg exhibited extraordinary verve and clarity of thought through the whole stretch of a long and productive life.
Science is not a social construct. Scienceโs truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.
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