The Slack Wire

Via Scott McLemee and Corey Robin, I learn that Lawrence & Wishart, the publishers of the collected works of Marx and Engels, have iss...

1. Are Banks Necessary? Ashwin at Macroeconomic Resilience had a very interesting post last month arguing that the fundamental function ...

The New York Times paywall is here. Felix Salmon has the details, and what looks like the definitive critique: What does all this mean for...

Is this for real? Did Bruce Sterling really write a novel in which the end of intellectual property rights leads to a complete collapse of ...

Anyone who pays for recorded music is a sucker. But what about the artists? No one will make music if they don't get paid! Possibly,...