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Credit and debt, in short, are among the essential building blocks of economic development, as vital to creating the wealth of nations
Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
Geoeconomic Pressure
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Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
China’s communications, as well as the managing of its fragile environment – dependent on water, threatened by floods – required an unusual degree of bureaucratic liaison between centre, province and district.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Economics
Heather • 6 cards
Thus, for the next quarter century, did governments resolve the so-called ‘trilemma’, according to which a country can choose any two out of three policy options: full freedom of cross-border capital movements; a fixed exchange rate; an independent monetary policy oriented towards domestic objectives.57
Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
Financial Instability
Alvaro Gornes • 2 cards
The publishing of L’Âge de la multitude in 2012 caught the attention of the French government. As I went back to the public sector for a brief period, they asked me to write a report, alongside Pierre Collin (a respected tax judge in the French Conseil d’Etat), on taxation and the digital economy[207]. The