A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo Piombini / 10.19.2017 Before the State For a very extended period of time primitive men lived in small groups of hunters and gatherers at a time in which there was no state. The modus vivendi of these clans[…]
By Dr. Joseph T. Salerno / 10.25.2017 Ludwig von Mises as Social Rationalist For the most part Ludwig von Mises’s writings on society and social evolution have been ignored by the participants in the current revivals of both Austrian economics and classical liberal political philosophy. When his social theory has been addressed, Mises appears to[…]
Overcoming isolation in the gig economy, workers like Amazon’s Mechanical Turks are building democratic, worker-led communities. By Paul Hampton / 08.25.2016 Estelle Becker Costanzo has worked in Pittsburgh restaurants since age 15. Now 56, she is a server at The Capital Grille, a position she is proud of. “This is a good job,” she says—relative[…]
Austin, Texas, leads the nation in people with jobs outside the 9-to-5 economy. By Martin do Nascimento / 08.18.2016 Shooting this assignment and meeting folks doing gig work all over Austin, Texas, I was surprised by the variety of perspectives that people have on working in the gig economy. Ask two rideshare drivers or two[…]
Courtesy: Softwear Automation National Public Radio (NPR) has published a series of stories about robots and the future of employment in the U.S. and abroad. It begins with the story about the Luddites war on industry and a more recent podcast about the sewing robot DARPA has contracted to research for the production of U.S. military[…]