A common sense economic agenda
The third scenario is that the Western tech industry itself realizes that its interests lie in imagining a new Great Safety Net for the new age of ubiquitous computing and networks—and that it shouldn't wait for feeble Western governments to take the lead. The critical (if transient) role the corporate world played in securing the legacy of the Sec
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
to create a majestic and egalitarian society requires a more expansive vision of public goods than what can be imagined with economics alone.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Free market logic describes how the laws of supply and demand incentivize providing the best goods at the lowest prices. But custom means economic decisions are made unthinkingly, outsourced to tradition, which might be political, ideological, or even aesthetic in origin. By law and in practice, the entire U.S. banking system has been fully guarant... See more
Samo Burja • 27 Insights From Three Years of Bismarck Brief
Abundance begins with specific goals for America’s future. Imagine much more housing where it’s most in demand. An economy powered by plentiful clean energy. A revitalized national science policy prioritizing high-risk discoveries that extend lives and improve health. And a national invention agenda that seeks to pull forward technologies in transp
... See moreDerek Thompson • The Political Fight of the Century
The twenty-first century capitalist’s agenda, in a nutshell, is to rethink the “capital”—to build organizations that are less machines, and more living networks of the many different kinds of capital, whether natural, human, social, or creative.
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
The first big step is to repair the safety net so that workers and families are no longer at perpetual risk of falling through and drowning, as millions have in the pandemic. This means essentially extending the New Deal to more Americans in more areas of their lives: universal health care, child care, paid family and sick leave, stronger workplace
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