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The so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were created just by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a close circle of aides with little public deliberation or government participation. Annan and his staff worked behind closed doors with technocrats at the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
... See moreBjorn Lomborg • Best Things First
Yet they have largely been unmatched by the emergence of appropriate labor market institutions (such as unions and labor regulations) that allow workers to share the potential benefits of these arrangements. Thus, they have tended to raise workplace precarity and contribute to the “hollowing-out” of the middle class in many developed countries[7].
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
le problème principal auquel nous avons à faire face, de nos jours, n’est pas un problème économique mais un problème politique. Les bons économistes sont fondamentalement d’accord en ce qui concerne les choses qu’il conviendrait de faire. Presque toutes les tentatives du gouvernement pour redistribuer richesse et revenu tendent à étouffer les
... See moreBenoît Malbranque • l'Économie en Une Leçon
Any society, whatever its political system, is perpetually in transit between a past that forms its memory and a vision of the future that inspires its evolution. Along this route, leadership is indispensable: decisions must be made, trust earned, promises kept, a way forward proposed. Within human institutions – states, religions, armies,
... See moreHenry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
elle nécessite sa propre économie – c’est le cas de l’économie mondialisée ; mais une société doit contrôler son économie, et ce contrôle ici fait défaut ; il manque également les autorités légitimes dotées de pouvoirs de décision ; absente aussi est la conscience d’une communauté de destin indispensable pour que cette société devienne
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