Amazon, Uber, Airbnb: As consumers, we want platforms to be big; as citizens, we want to limit their power. We can’t fully achieve both, but we can come close – by subjecting them to constitutional-style constraints.
American economist Thomas Sowell described the ideological origins of current political conflicts over thirty years ago. His analysis explains why left-wing utopians fail in the face of reality.
Thomas Sowell führt politische Einstellungen auf unterschiedliche Weltanschauungen zurück. Bild: Wikimedia Commons, 1964.
Der amerikanische Ökonom Thomas Sowell hat die weltanschaulichen Ursprünge der gegenwärtigen politischen Konflikte bereits vor über dreissig Jahren beschrieben. Seine Analyse erklärt, warum linke Utopisten an der Realität scheitern.
Complexity vs. Consent: The contrast between the self-reinforcing machinery of international bureaucracy and Switzerland’s model of citizen-led discipline
Democracies are not collapsing. They are quietly being hijacked—by rules, agencies, and subsidies that grow while citizens sleep. Switzerland alone shows what happens when government is forced to fear its people, not the other way around.
Der Enthusiasmus für die Freiheit schlägt in jedem Herz, sagt Cass Sunstein. Der Rechtsprofessor ist überzeugt, auch Antiliberale vom Liberalismus überzeugen zu können.
Singles in public spaces: Physically close, but socially absent. Illustration: AI-generated
Zurich is full of attractive, intelligent people who almost never meet each other. Not because they don’t want to, but because the dating market here is structurally illiquid. The good news is that this is neither fate nor unfairness. It is liquidity, and liquidity can be created.
