Jim Clifton, chief executive of Gallup Inc., has a robust theory about entrepreneurialism and economic recovery.
Authors: Art Kleiner, Jim Clifton | Source: strategy+business (September 4, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Immigration
Our political divisions aren’t red versus blue, but fixed versus fluid.
Author: Ezra Klein | Source: Vox (December 18, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
When looking at artificial intelligence from the perspective of economics, we ask the same, single question that we ask with any technology: What does it reduce the cost of? Economists are good at taking the fun and wizardry out of technology and leaving us with this dry but illuminating question. The answer reveals why AI is so important relative to many other exciting technologies. AI … [ Read more ]
Author: Ajay Agrawal | Source: McKinsey Quarterly (April2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Information, IT | Technology
Motivated reasoning, bias, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more, explained.
Author: Brian Resnick | Source: Vox (October 23, 2018) | Subjects: Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
What is the essential dividing line between human beings around the world? The one between the haves and the have-nots? East and west, rural and urban, secular and religious? Or maybe globalists and nationalists – a split purported to explain Putin, Brexit and the rise of Trump? These divisions are all significant, but none provide a consistent way of understanding differences observed from antiquity to … [ Read more ]
Author: Michele Gelfand | Source: The Guardian (September 17, 2018) | Subjects: Culture, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
We need go-go capitalism to afford a generous welfare state, and people won’t support go-go capitalism without a safety net. “Socialists” and Republicans forget different parts of this lesson.
Author: Will Wilkinson | Source: Vox (August 16, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? “Like a doughnut,” says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In an eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole—where people are falling short on life’s essentials—and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet’s ecological limits.
Author: Kate Raworth | Source: TED (April2018) | Subjects: Audio, Economics | Economy, Environment | Sustainability, Politics & Public Policy
It’s been said that the four most expensive words in the world are: ‘This time it’s different.’
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One of the things that happens in economic good times – a very clear lesson from history which is repeatedly ignored – is that money gets too cheap. Too much credit enters the system and there is too much money looking for investment opportunities. […] it is an iron … [ Read more ]
Author: John Lanchester | Source: London Review of Books (July 5, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
Conservatism, as Roger Scruton reminds us, was founded during the 18th-century Enlightenment. In France, Britain and the American colonies, Enlightenment thinkers were throwing off monarchic power and seeking to build an order based on reason and consent of the governed. Society is best seen as a social contract, these Enlightenment thinkers said. Free individuals get together and contract with one another to create order.
Conservatives said … [ Read more ]
Author: David Brooks | Source: The New York Times (June 25, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
The person who is wrong on purpose is afraid of the vulnerability of trying at a task that may fail. In particular, afraid of the process of learning. The “indefinite approximation” Sartre mentions is the process of double-checking, doubting, asking questions, second-guessing, saying “oops”, moderating or complicating one’s views, all the millions of mental motions involved in trying to understand things accurately. The person who … [ Read more ]
Source: Otium (April 24, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
“What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?” technologist Aviv Ovadya warns.
Authors: Aviv Ovadya, Charlie Warzel | Source: BuzzFeed (February 12, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, IT | Technology, Journalism, Life & Society, News | Media | Publishing, Psychology | Behavior
Rex Tillerson may have represented the last gasp of a certain kind of moderate Republican thinking about the world.
Author: Peter Beinart | Source: The Atlantic (March 15, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, Politics & Public Policy
Chances are, your coworkers are better at rating some parts of your personality than you are.
Author: Adam Grant | Source: The Atlantic (March 1, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
According to Emily Esfahani Smith, happiness arises from a deep sense of contentment rather than the incessant and unyielding grasping for pleasure. This contentment can be derived by seeking, cultivating, and maintaining the four pillars of meaning,
Author: Derek Beres | Source: Big Think (January 23, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Happiness, Meaning, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State
Author: Umair Haque | Source: Eudaimonia (January 25, 2018) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology