MIT Technology Review
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
5 min read · 2020-06-04 · The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just…
The Atlantic
What Makes Us Happy?
From 2014 · Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound in
CBS News
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
4 min read · 2020-12-17 · Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
diaridegirona.cat
Canvi de model i/o col�lapse
3 min read · 2020-10-18 · Estudiant i llegint sobre quina soluci� t� la humanitat per resoldre el canvi clim�tic, he topat amb un llibre de dos francesos: Colapsolog�a, de Pablo Servigne i Rapha�l Stevens. El llibre es va…
Internet Archive
Risk, uncertainty and profit
2020-08-27 · pt. 1. Introductory.--pt. 2. Perfect competition.--pt. 3. Imperfect competition through risk and uncertainty
La Vanguardia
España encabeza la caída récord de la actividad en la UE por la pandemia
3 min read · 2020-08-15 · Eurostat confirmó ayer que los esfuerzos para detener el avance de la pandemia entre abril y junio ha supuesto nada menos que una caída del 12% de la actividad económica en el eurozona. Los...
EL PAÍS
El mapa de la renta de padres e hijos: cómo la riqueza de tu familia influye en tu futuro
7 min read · 2020-07-15 · ¿Cuál es la renta de los jóvenes que se criaron en hogares pobres en los 90? ¿Funciona el ascensor social en España? Lo mostramos en un mapa por provincia, municipio y código postal
ideas.pwc.es
El termómetro de la recuperación económica: otro empujón de optimismo
6 min read · 2020-06-06 · El termómetro de la recuperación económica: otro empujón de optimismo. En Ideas PwC, más info de economía y finanzas sobre covid-19 en todos los sectores
Al Jazeera English
Will coronavirus signal the end of capitalism?
2020-04-03 · The peasants' revolt after the 14th-century plague saw off feudalism. After COVID-19, will it be the turn of capitalism?
dobetter.esade.edu
Universal basic income: questions and answers
2020-04-14 · Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a programme whereby all the citizens of a country (normally, all adult citizens) receive an unconditional income, independently of whether or not they are in…
Visual Capitalist
How China Overtook the U.S. as the World’s Major Trading Partner
9 min read · 2020-01-22 · China has become the world's major trading partner – and now, 128 of 190 countries trade more with China than they do with the United States.
Visual Capitalist
All of the World’s Wealth in One Visualization
8 min read · 2020-01-16 · There is $360.6 trillion of wealth globally. This graphic shows how it breaks down by country, to show who owns all of the world's wealth.
WIRED UK
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened
~18 min read · 2019-10-08 · Mariana Mazzucato has demonstrated that the real driver of innovation isn't lone geniuses but state investment. Now she's working with the UK government, EU and UN to apply her moonshot approach to…
forward.com
Economist Joseph Stiglitz goes analog to rebut Trump at Davos in real time
2 min read · 2020-01-25 · Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz got his rebuttal to Trump’s Davos address into the hands of attendees with the help of his wife.
Fast Company
In Arizona, a case study in how architecture can adapt to climate change
3 min read · 2020-01-21 · Innovative architectural practices will become increasingly necessary in coming years. Here’s how one architecture firm did it.
The Wall Street Journal
Davos’s Creator Still Believes the Conference Can Bridge Divides
2020-01-20 · Klaus Schwab brings his vision of the stakeholder concept to the 50th meeting of what’s now the World Economic Forum.
