Sublime

“strategic value.”

Near the end of my stint as an entrepreneur, my friend Henri Verdier (now the chief information officer of the French government) and I wrote a book together: L’Âge de la multitude[177]. We designed it as both a testimonial of what the startup world was all about and a wake-up call for the old world of elected officials, civil servants, and corpora

Measuring what matters begins with the question: What is most important for the next three (or six, or twelve) months?

4 THE MARCH OF PROGRESS

Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml

The dominant regime of political economy in the West since 1971, and particularly acute since 2009, has been built on a set of related economic fallacies: There are no adverse consequences to manipulating the price and supply of money; economic well-being can be measured by increases in flows of revenue rather than the growth rate of profit over ca

The private sector is vital for prosperity based on investment and innovation, but it cannot replace the public provision of public goods that are irreducible to profit.

The Principle of Growth: We should maximize the rate of sustainable economic growth, defined in terms of a concept such as Wealth Plus.