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Continue reading →: Should Robots Be Taxed?In 2017, Bill Gates posed a simple but powerful question: If a factory worker who produces $50,000 worth of output a year pays income and social security taxes, why shouldn’t a robot that takes over the same job bear a similar tax burden? Gates argued that a robot tax could…
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Continue reading →: TÜRKİYE’S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLANTürkiye’s 2026–2030 Artificial Intelligence Action Plan translates the national strategy launched in 2021 into measurable targets. The Plan treats energy, computing infrastructure, data, human capital, financing, and regulation as complementary inputs to production. By 2030, it targets 1 GW of AI/data center capacity, at least USD 10 billion in predominantly…
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Continue reading →: Google and Digital CapitalismGoogle recently updated its Terms of Service to state that its services and devices may connect to the internet in the background even when they are not being actively used, and that any resulting data usage and associated costs are the responsibility of the user. This provision makes the logic…
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Continue reading →: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Platforms and AIFor approximately three years, I worked as an economics editor at one of Türkiye’s leading media organizations. During this period, I gained firsthand experience producing content for the digital platform of a well-established newspaper. This experience provided a valuable opportunity to directly observe some of the structural transformations shaping the…
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Continue reading →: “Just the Other Day”: The U.S. Dollar as a Reserve CurrencyThe historically themed jokes made by King Charles III of the United Kingdom during his visit to the United States bring to mind one of America’s most powerful symbols: the dollar. Let’s take a closer look at the front and back of U.S. banknotes. Banknote Front Back $1 George Washington…
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Continue reading →: ESTER BITON RUBEN – The Human That Economics ForgotThis book argues that the assumption of a selfish and rational individual, which has become established in mainstream economics, is both theoretically reductionist and psychologically incomplete, and that this assumption has negative consequences for mental health in capitalist society. According to Ester Biton Ruben, mainstream economics does not merely explain…
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Welcome to My Economics Diary. This is a space where I interpret economic reports, data, and analyses. Here, I examine the different components of the economy from digital and international economics to political economy and reflect on how the decisions and figures shaping this field are manifested in everyday life.
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