Progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. For most of history, living standards remained trapped at subsistence levels until a revolutionary idea emerged 500 years ago: Society could be ...

New technology inevitably sparks a conversation about losing certain jobs as a result of progress, but time and time again, we have seen America, along with people en masse, benefit in the long run ...

For two centuries, technology has transformed how we live and work, from the steam engine to the internet. It is tempting to assume that progress will always continue. Yet history offers a sobering ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Northwestern University professor and Reason contributor Joel Mokyr "for having identified the ...

Headlines are dominated by the oncoming AI apocalypse. The 21st century, far from being an age of decay, may prove to be the most creative and constructive period in human history, says Madsen Pirie ...

How Progress Ends suggests that stagnation results from bureaucratic structures, sometimes appropriate for the exploitation of previous technologies but unsuited to newer ideas. Frey argues that ...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, ...

In an age where technological advancements continue to accelerate, we must ask ourselves whether the next ‘big thing’ is truly necessary or just a compulsion exacerbated by digital giants. I have ...

The strike by 47,000 International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members, which shut down all 36 East and Gulf Coast ports, has ended after an agreement on wages. However, the most important issue, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China ...