Economist Martin Weitzman has put it this way: “Can we imagine a world in which we’d run out of new ideas?” Almost inconceivable. The reason is that most new ideas are generated as new combinations of old ideas, and the number of new combinations is almost limitless:

shared value is no more about profit than prosperity is about the accumulation of more stuff. While the search for economic profit and the desire for material wealth are, inarguably, very powerful human motivators, they do not constitute the totality of human interest. In the world’s wealthiest places as well as the poorest, some of the most

Urban sprawl and the traffic it engenders is an example of a paradox of prosperity—a

Once the system didn’t function normally, it came very close to not functioning at all.

For individuals, companies, and nations alike, it’s time to be what matters.

The advance of human societies fundamentally requires that they continuously attain a balance between order and adaptability. Entrepreneurs are vital to the attainment and maintenance of prosperity because they are, by definition, the ones who push back against incumbent interests and, in so doing, maintain that balance.

“One of the most abundant resources on earth is smart, creative, imaginative people. And yet 99.9% of the power of the human race is not being marshaled right now.. .. All we need to do is open that spigot a little bit and we could come up with endless ways to create and produce and distribute.” In this generation as in generations past, people

It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

trillions of meals that human beings have prepared and consumed over millennia out of essentially the same fundamental set of ingredients, individual people not only come up with new recipes, but can in fact become famous doing so? A new recipe here and there, sure. But entire cookbooks full of culinary novelty? Or even, as is the current reality