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Is the UK about to miss its 'nuclear moment'? - CapX
网页1 天前 · After decades of stop-start policymaking on nuclear, the technology behind SMRs has led to their resurgence into UK energy policy. Last year it was clear that a new ‘nuclear moment’ had arrived, as the previous government outlined their roadmap to reach 24GW by 2050 – largely based on the rollout of SMRs. Despite a change of government ...
Politics as we know it is about to change forever - CapX
网页3 天之前 · From space exploration to driverless cars, new tech will change our politics. Smart politicians will get ahead of technological advances. We are entering an age of exploration the likes of which we haven't seen since the 19th century. A range of technical advances sit on the cusp of widespread introduction or are already spreading fast.
Capitalism still has the X factor - CapX
网页5 天之前 · Whatever some of its detractors say, capitalism isn’t late: it’s early. Here at CapX, we saw the power of ‘X’ long before Elon Musk made it impossible to ignore. X is weird and a bit ugly, but repays a deeper look. X stands for the excitement of the unknown. It hints at vast treasures waiting to be discovered, while promising an ...
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Let’s welcome the best and brightest - CapX
网页3 天之前 · The Office for Budget Responsibility found that low-wage migrants can cost the taxpayer £150,000 each by the time they reach the state pension age. By contrast, migrants earning 30% more than the average wage contribute a net revenue boost of £925,000 in the same period. The economic costs and benefits of immigration are not uniform.
Weekly briefing: CapX at 10 - CapX
网页2024年1月7日 · This promises to be a year of progress and appreciation for a proud record of achievement. Not for the government, of course, which is facing a general election from around 20 points behind in the polls and with perishingly little to show for the last 14 years. But for CapX and the Centre for Policy […]
Weekly Briefing: A busy week for AI - CapX
网页2023年11月5日 · It has been a busy week in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). American President Joe Biden signed an AI executive order (EO), and the British government’s long-awaited AI Safety Summit kicked off in Bletchley Park. What the long term effects of the EO and the summit are remain to be seen, but both provide […]
CapX Books of 2021 - CapX
网页2021年12月20日 · John Ashmore. Much of my reading this year has been in aid of The CapX Podcast. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke, Inc was a fascinating dissection of the utterly shameless way that Wall St institutions have co-opted a social justice agenda to enhance their own power and avoid scrutiny, in an unholy marriage of convenience with left-wing pressure groups.. A couple of books on economics also stood out ...
Free Exchange: Paul Collier on the future of capitalism - CapX
网页2019年1月25日 · This week’s guest on Free Exchange, the CapX podcast, is Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. As a development economist, Paul has spent his life tackling some of the thorniest and most important questions around: what is holding the …