Adam Smith is often regarded as the “father” of economics, given that his “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” of 1776 is the fundamental cornerstone of classical economics. Non-economists sometimes belief that economics favours or defends business interests, but this is not the case. Economics defends the public interest,…
The Swiss Contribution to Rock’n’Roll
In the movie “The Third Man” Harry Lime, the character played by Orson Welles, famously says: “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and…
Algorithms and Polarization
Wether it was Ronald Reagan (Pruitt 2018) or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Kirschbaum 2016) who ended the cold war, for those who were not around in the 1980s it is difficult to imagine the optimism that prevailed after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the (mostly) peaceful…
Yeah, Well, That’s Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man
Welcome to the Dudes Blog! We are delighted that you stopped by. We must warn you though: we have no idea yet what we will be writing here on this blog, nor what our intention is. But Miles is into history, Evan is into politics, and Thomas is into economics and crypto. We are all…