Stuff to read

  1. Aeromexico helps Americans “get over the wall”
  2. (Government-sponsored) fake news in Hungary is pretty weird.
  3. Utilities (once “safe as houses”) are under pressure from climate change
  4. How Google sells ads (and Facebook sells promise) Related: Zuckerberg says people want targeted ads. He’s wrong.
  5. Patriots are better than nationalists. Related: The history of flags
  6. The Dutch need a carbon tax if they’re serious about meeting their Paris commitment.
  7. Should leisure be taxed to force young men to work rather than play games?
  8. Anand Giridharadas takes the piss, posing as #DavosMan
  9. Peter Thiel has some great ideas on markets.
  10. Poverty isn’t increasing if you consider how colonialism immiserated “poor” but free peoples. Related: Colonialism is only another form of free-riding on the wealth of others (or our future)

H/Ts to PB and RN

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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