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9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Welcome to the YOLO EconomyThe New York Times
7 min read · Apr 21st · Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure.
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for a growing number of people with financial cushions and in-demand skills, the dread and anxiety of the past year are giving way to a new kind of professional fearlessness.
If “languishing” is 2021’s dominant emotion, YOLOing may be the year’s defining work force trend.
TIME
Amsterdam Is Embracing a New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Replace Capitalism?TIME
10 min read · Jan 23rd · It’s the first time a major city has attempted to put doughnut theory into action on a local level
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Visual Capitalist
Ranked: The Most Innovative Economies in the WorldVisual Capitalist
~17 min read · 2020-02-28 · A country's ability to innovate helps it stay competitive on the global stage. Where are the most innovative economies, and how has the list changed?
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Aeon+Psyche
The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous mythAeon+Psyche
~14 min read · May 4th · Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
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humans, when left to their own devices, compete with one another for resources until the resources run out.
The challenge of understanding the complexity of all species continues, as does the challenge of seeing possibility in what so often looks like a collective tragedy.
World Economic Forum
A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishingWorld Economic Forum
4 min read · From 2017 · When a magazine challenged a technology company to use AI to pick 50 unheard of companies that were set to flourish, the experiment yielded dramatic results.
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WIRED UK
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listenedWIRED UK
~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…
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Vox
“I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary.”Vox
7 min read · 2020-04-10 · Over the past few days, I’ve been reading the major plans for what comes after social distancing. You can read them, too. There’s one from the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, the left…
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The New Yorker
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?The New Yorker
9 min read · 2020-02-03 · The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
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OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’OneZero
2020-08-26 · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
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Electric vehicles: recycled batteries and the search for a circular economy
Financial Times
The West Embraces State Subsidies, a Policy Throwback, to Counter China
The Wall Street Journal
Tax-to-GDP Ratio: Comparing Tax Systems Around the World
Visual Capitalist
The Time Tax
The Atlantic
The Behavioral Economics Manifesto Gets Revised
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The Atlantic
The Time TaxThe Atlantic
~15 min read · Jul 27th · A six-month wait for unemployment insurance. A paperwork nightmare over an insurance reimbursement. Drug tests for cash benefits. Why is there so much red tape in American life?
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And very little attention is being paid to making things work for the neediest—people short on time, money, and mental bandwidth.  The time tax needs to be measured. It needs to be managed. And it needs to end.
The time tax is everywhere.
Visual Capitalist
The Top 100 Companies of the World: The U.S. vs Everyone ElseVisual Capitalist
~15 min read · Jul 20th · When it comes to breaking down the top 100 companies of the world, the United States still commands the largest slice of the pie. Throughout the
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NPR's Planet Money
The Behavioral Economics Manifesto Gets RevisedNPR's Planet Money
7 min read · Jul 27th · We speak with the Nobel Prize-winning founder of behavioral economics about the new — and last — version of his classic book, Nudge.
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Visual Capitalist
Tax-to-GDP Ratio: Comparing Tax Systems Around the WorldVisual Capitalist
8 min read · Jul 28th · The tax-to-GDP ratio measures a country’s tax revenue, relative to the size of its economy (measured by its Gross Domestic Product, or GDP) A higher tax-to-GDP ratio means more money is going to gover
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The New York Times
Yellen Says China Trade Deal Has ‘Hurt American Consumers’The New York Times
7 min read · Jul 16th · The Treasury secretary said an agreement made by the Trump administration, which remains under review, had failed to address fundamental problems between the two countries.
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The Wall Street Journal
The West Embraces State Subsidies, a Policy Throwback, to Counter ChinaThe Wall Street Journal
10 min read · Jul 29th · “Industrial policy,” an approach long criticized as inefficient, is being adopted by the U.S. and its allies to directly fund critical sectors such as semiconductors. One spur is the security gap…
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Financial Times
Electric vehicles: recycled batteries and the search for a circular economyFinancial Times
Aug 2nd · The explosion in demand for EVs has spurred a quest for alternative sources of key metals such as cobalt and nickel 
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