The Policy Blog

Anthem Hayek Blanchard: Gold, Crypto & the End of Bretton Woods

Anthem is different because he believes emerging technologies won’t simply lead Bretton Woods to fade away; they will go further, to remove some of the key incentives toward exploitation, fear and distrust, that have plagued human history.

crypto

Cypherpunk Governance: How Social Contract Theory Informed the Development of Crypto in the 1990s

Before the 2008 financial crash, early blockchain pioneers and 'cypherpunk' cryptologists envisaged digital currencies as a way to protect privacy, encode new layers of property ownership, and revisit the social contract between citizens and governments

simulation theory

Nick Bostrom’s New Eden: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation?

Nick Bostrom, a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, wrote in 2001 that "we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."

artificial intelligence

Joseph Stiglitz on Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy

In an article in the Guardian, economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has argued that “it is time to focus on the public-policy issues surrounding AI."

Tech & Public Policy

Eisenhower: Has Public Policy Become “Captive of a Scientific-Technological Elite?”

In his 1961 Farewell address President Eisenhower's eye-catching remarks on the "military industrial complex" would be remembered for generations. Less widely noticed was a second interconnected 'threat,' which he believed could upset the delicate 'balance' upon which American democracy is based.