Here’s what happened to a bunch of big economies over the last 30 years…
Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits
There is a touch of destiny with this one. We have real…
Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
Capitalism in Crisis Amid Slow Growth and Growing Inequality
Six years after the Lehman disaster, the industrialized world is suffering from Japan Syndrome. Growth is minimal, another crash may be brewing and the gulf between rich and poor continues to widen. Can the global economy reinvent itself?
Poland is now among the world’s 20 largest economies. How it happened
Poland once was in economic ruins when communism fell more than three decades ago. Now it's the 20th largest economy in the world.
Opinion | Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid. (Published 2018)
In the 1930s it contributed to the rise of fascism. Alarmingly, we are experimenting again with a monopolized economy.
Opinion | There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else
This is worse than putting all your eggs in one basket.
Home - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren- John Maynard Keynes
We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down—at any rate in Great Britain; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us.
One shock after another: Why fragile economies are falling further behind?
Fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) never fully exited the pandemic recession and now face renewed stress from a major Middle East–driven energy shock. Nearly 60% of FCS economies still have lower real income per capita than in 2019 (vs 18% in other EMDEs), with poverty and food insecurity concentrated in non-recovered countries. The blog points to three main drags—high debt, conflict, and larger disaster losses—and calls for conflict prevention, macro stability, fiscal space, jobs, and sustained support.
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other — Douglas Rushkoff
My last piece, The Intentional Collapse, seems to have agitated a few people. I know it came off a bit dark. I talked about how the Uber wealthy believe the world as we know it is ending and that there won’t be enough essential resources to go around, so they need to take control of as much money and stuff and land as possible in order to position themselves for the end of days.
Beyond GDP: Measuring and Valuing What Really Matters
Rethinking the UN’s “beyond GDP” agenda and the case for putting wealth at the centre
Decent Infrastructure in an Authoritarian World
What would it take to build economic infrastructure that doesn’t reproduce the value capture we’ve all been trying to escape? A concept paper from Holo Ventures.
