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would be a mistake to assume that microfinance is the holy grail solution to the problem of global poverty, any more than is Hernando de Soto’s property rights prescription.
Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
And so the model of the thalassocracy emerges as the most useful precedent to understand the current challenges related to the competitiveness of nations. In the Entrepreneurial Age, what matters is less the enclosed land than the wider sea; less asset ownership than the mastery of non-appropriable resources (the sea yesterday, the multitude today)
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Human nature requires catastrophes to jolt us into change—but with some catastrophes, notably climate change, by the time that happens it may be too late.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Government still had the responsibility, but, more and more, the wealthy made the
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat. Such a threat can come from a wide range of sources, including competition, dramatic macroeconomic change, market change, supply chain change, and so forth. The great wartime CEO Andy Grove marvelously describes the forces that can take a company from peacetime to wartime in his b
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
