Understanding and governing technology transitions is essential to cope with major challenges of the 21st century such as climate change or digitization. In this paper, a learning-based approach developed explain dynamics different transition pathways. Technological know-how necessary make effective use technical innovations embodied in capital. Firms employees accumulate specific knowledge whe...

We present a model of electoral competition with endogenous platforms and campaign spending where the division voters between impressionable ideological is also depends on parties’ strategic platform choices. Our approach results in tractable that provides interesting comparative statics effect recent technological advancements. For instance, we can accommodate new justification behind well-doc...

I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms “machine” and “think.” The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words“machine”and “think” are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to e...