Jeff Bezos is stepping down from daily management tasks as chief executive officer of Amazon, the company he founded in 1994, although he will continue to be involved in the company as executive chairman of the board.
In the early 19th century, various cities in Scotland and Ireland had established their own police forces.
I've found that the word "regulation" is a sort of Rorschach test on which many people project their broader political beliefs.
Anyone who believes the “rich” and large corporations will pay for $28 trillion in debt or the $2 trillion in new deficit has a real problem with maths.
W. Brian Arthur re-opens some old questions about the discipline of economics and the role of mathematics with fresh language in "Economics in Nouns and Verbs" (April 5, 2021, preprint at arXiv).
Paul Romer (Nobel '18) offered a pithy aphorism a few years ago: "Everyone wants progress. Nobody wants change."
President Joe Biden is hosting a two-day virtual global climate change summit on Earth Day.