Rediscovering British Progress
These kinds of examples show that there can be ecosystems that are better at generating progress than others, perhaps by orders of magnitude. But what do they have in common? Just how productive can a cultural ecosystem be? Why did Silicon Valley happen in California rather than Japan or Boston? Why was early-20th-century science in Germany and Cen... See more
This book’s thesis is that we cannot move on from the key problems facing our economies until we abandon this narrow view. Mission thinking of the kind I outline here can help us restructure contemporary capitalism.