Tag: economics
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“Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.” – Satoshi… more ›
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In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Professor Helen Thompson, Tim Marshall and Dr Daniel Yergin to discuss the global energy market. https://engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/worldview-reflections-on-war-the-battle-for-energy-resources/ more ›
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In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics more ›
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One thing that is always daunting about scholarship is the sheer incomprehensible vastness of it. We strive for originality and novelty in research, but this is hard to achieve. https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-shape-of-techno-moral-revolutions.html more ›
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Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›
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This essay proposes a new model of personal and public wealth-building that can address the current crisis of inequality in the United States. https://www.berggruen.org/ideas/articles/the-mutualist-economy-a-new-deal-for-ownership/ more ›
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The number of billionaires worldwide grew by 660 in 2020, according to the latest annual tally by Forbes magazine. There are now a record 2,755 people globally who have more… more ›