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01Designing social systems with AI instead of choosing left or right: AI-written tax and redistribution rules, Community Notes, and who sets the objectiveAI can now draft tax schedules, redistribution rules and compromise statements, and some of them win votes against the familiar ideological designs. Each one still needs someone to decide what counts as better, and outside the lab pricing software, engagement-driven feeds and pollsters' synthetic respondents are already making that decision.ArticleEconomics68 quotes · 4 sources · 15 min18 Oct
02Beyond "Which System Wins": Designing Social Systems with AI, and What the Evidence AllowsThe idea that the left-vs-right contest between capitalism, socialism, conservatism and liberalism can be replaced by designing systems is not new. Both sides of the century-old socialist calculation debate [4][8], and the cybernetic plann…ResearchEconomics40k characters18 Oct
03Topping up low wages in Canada: the Canada Workers Benefit, employer capture, and the workers who never fileCanada already runs the alternative to a basic income — a refundable credit that tops up low earnings automatically. Two things decide whether it works: employers absorb part of any wage subsidy where no floor exists, and about 9% of eligible earners never file a return.ArticleEconomics46 quotes · 1 source · 9 min10 Oct
04Job guarantees in Austria, France and India: employment effects, cost per job, and the designs that trap peopleA job for anyone who wants one sounds utopian. It has been tried — in an Austrian town, in 83 French territories and across rural India. It works, it costs money, and the design decides whether it is a springboard or a trap.ArticleEconomics49 quotes · 1 source · 8 min10 Oct
05A tax on money that sits stillNo one has seriously built a Pigouvian tax on hoarded, immobile capital. The closest precedent is demurrage — a fee for holding currency.Open problemEconomicsOpen3 Oct