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between material infrastructure and population change that when cities grow quickly plays out so tragically in the form of slums also plays a detrimental role when cities shrink.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The Life You Can Save, Singer
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Money emerges from uncertainty, capital emerges from money, and uncertainty emerges from capital.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Third, this constant and pointless demand for financialization will create political and business opportunities to better facilitate it.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE POWER
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Even in the grip of collapse, there is a very real race between natural and social tipping points.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
One of his concerns can be parsed out as a conflict over resources: “If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.”
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
that are misleading, confusing, or false.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
survival—food, agriculture, water, health care, energy, and so on—and focus efforts on them.