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Economics & Marginalia: February 2, 2024 | Center For Global ...
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Can we simplify complexity, turn products into assets, subdivide resources, or minimize information costs—and perfect yesterday’s imperfections?”
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
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"All parts of our economy were previously based on scarcity. In almost every case, that scarcity has disappeared. The way you win on the internet is to be the starting place where people go - Google, Facebook, these aggregators - or you're highly differentiated and you leverage the fact that you have zero distribution to reach anyone."
Ben Thompson • Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
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There are great opportunities in front of us, for anyone whose eyes are open.
Friction (scarcity) allows for return on capital.
Lack of friction (abundance) allows for compounding growth.
The great businesses are the ones who harness both.
Technology changes where the friction is located.
Scarce resources become abstracted and turn abundant.
New scarce r
... See moreAlex Danco • Understanding Abundance, Part 4: What will not change
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An arresting plea for ‘small is beautiful’ in an economy increasingly oriented around breakneck growth, financialization, increasing monopolies, and industry consolidation.
workfutures • Always and Forever
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Seriously. In part that’s because the economics of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly about how best to share existing “pies” of human well-being, rather than how
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
But in the 21st Century, the biggest challenge is not how to get things done more efficiently; instead, the challenge is figuring out what to do. And the relationship between economic inputs and outputs is no longer linear.
Dror Poleg • Betting the Firm
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