Economics Archives

19 07, 2017

Rediscovering the humanities in financial matters

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-19T08:46:09-04:00July 19th, 2017|business, Economics, education, History, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, U.S. / Canada, Videos, Writing|0 Comments

Why literature, history, philosophy, and art offer countless examples of financial insight, and why knowing the ways of finance deepens our appreciation of the humanities.

18 07, 2017

The humanities of finance (John Laidler, Harvard Gazette)

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-19T06:51:25-04:00July 18th, 2017|Academia, Arts, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Language, News, Philosophy, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A new book examines the way finance and the humanities together count for more.

16 07, 2017

Living well with philosophy (T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post)

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-16T08:07:11-04:00July 16th, 2017|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Journalism, Law, News, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Philosophy deepens and widens our life's course.

18 06, 2017

Sounding the Anthropocene (Alex Bladsdel, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2017-06-18T06:16:43-04:00June 18th, 2017|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, History, Language, News, Philosophy, Politics, psychology, Religion, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

The Anthropocene as the latest stage of human, and planetary, development.

21 05, 2017

Lassoing algorithms (Megan Rose Dickey, TechCrunch)

By Humanities Watch|2017-05-21T06:32:39-04:00May 21st, 2017|Articles, business, Economics, Everything Else, History, Language, mathematics, News, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Do algorithms enforce our biases, or do they challenge our preconceptions?

7 05, 2017

The Decline of the West (again) (Rachel Nuwer, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2017-05-07T09:19:32-04:00May 7th, 2017|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Europe, History, mathematics, News, Politics, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Computing science and math, along with historical knowledge, offer new assessments on the health of the current society.

20 04, 2017

Elon Musk and Sam Altman Speak on the Future of Information

By Humanities Watch|2017-04-27T09:50:52-04:00April 20th, 2017|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, People, Technology, Videos|1 Comment

Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak about the future of technology and its uses in accessing and using information.

9 04, 2017

Elon Musk and the Present Future of A.I. (Maureen Dowd, Vanity Fair)

By Humanities Watch|2017-04-09T06:19:29-04:00April 9th, 2017|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Employment, Everything Else, health, History, mathematics, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Will artificial intelligence enhance or imperil our humanity?

22 02, 2017

Humanities in the Age of Big Data

By Humanities Watch|2017-03-03T14:10:30-05:00February 22nd, 2017|2017, business, Economics, Everything Else, February, History, Philosophy, psychology, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Humanities in the Age of Big Data: an historian tries to unravel the consequences for ourselves and our way of life. Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer [...]

20 02, 2017