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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.
have this renewed creative sense about what my life could look like, and how fulfilling it can be
Visual Capitalist
The 20 Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next DecadeVisual Capitalist
~15 min read · Sep 13th · The employment landscape is constantly shifting. While agricultural jobs played a big role in the 19th century, a large portion of U
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Wind turbine service technicians have the fastest growth rate, with solar photovoltaic (solar panel) installers taking the third slot.
Nine of the top 20 fastest growing jobs are in healthcare or related fields, as the baby boomer population ages and chronic conditions are on the rise.
Nine of the top 20 fastest growing jobs are in healthcare or related fields, as the baby boomer population ages and chronic conditions are on the rise
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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Guardian Books
The big idea: should we work less?Guardian Books
5 min read · Oct 11th · A shorter working week could benefit society, the environment - even the economy. Is it time to reassess our relationship with our jobs?
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As Amelia Horgan notes in her book Lost in Work, “We, almost always, need a job more than a job needs us. Our entrance into work is unfree, and while we’re there, our time is not our own.”
The way we work, produce and consume has set the planet on fire, but the good news is that a shorter work week can be part of the solution.
Perhaps the most important reason to consider working less is that the looming climate catastrophe makes the Covid crisis look manageable by comparison.
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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Guardian Environment
Capitalism is killing the planetGuardian Environment
~13 min read · Oct 30th · Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
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Most political news is gossip: who’s in, who’s out, who said what. It avoids what lies beneath: the dark money, the corruption …
The main cause of your environmental impact is your money. You persuade yourself you’re a green mega-consumer, but you’re just a mega-consumer
There is a poverty line below which no one should fall, and a wealth line above which no one should rise. We need wealth taxes, not carbon taxes
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.
WIRED UK
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listenedWIRED UK
~18 min read · From 2019 · 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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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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Best non-fiction books of 2021
Marginal Revolution
Weekly jobless claims post stunning decline to 199,000, the lowest level since 1969
CNBC
It's not a 'Great Resignation' that will change work forever, one economist says. His calculations show the…
Business Insider
What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies
Pew Research Global
Milton Friedman Is More Relevant Than Ever
Bloomberg
Making Sense of the NFT Marketplace
Harvard Business Review
The Right Institutions for the Climate Transition
Project Syndicate
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Aeon+Psyche
There are six main narratives of globalisation, all flawedAeon+Psyche
~14 min read · Nov 4th · No wonder we cannot agree on how globalisation works and whether it’s a good thing. All the stories we have are flawed
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Debates about economic globalisation are often dominated by hedgehogs – actors who interpret and evaluate the dynamics and consequences of globalisation through a single lens.
Aeon+Psyche
How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of riskAeon+Psyche
6 min read · Nov 2nd · From the docks of 12th-century Genoa to the gambling tables of today, risk is a story that we tell ourselves about the future
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Rizq bounced from port to port until it landed on the worktable of a scribe in Genoa recording a strategy used to share out the risk of trans-Mediterranean trading ventures
Risk still connoted the back-of-the-envelope calculations that couch-cushion entrepreneurs made with a sailor, hard bargains captured in the rough Latin of the notaries
It put a number on contingency, and in so doing it rationalised risk.  Where did this
The New York Times
Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?The New York Times
20+ min read · Nov 12th · In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?
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Freddie Mac estimated at the end of 2020 that the United States was 3.8 million housing units short of meeting the nation’s needs
The end result is that millennials buying their first home today are likely to spend far more, in real terms, than boomers who bought their first home in the ’80s.
its stability and relative slowness — no longer held true. “We’re gamifying real estate investment to the point that it’s almost like throwing money at the stock market,”
Pew Research Global
What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced EconomiesPew Research Global
~11 min read · Nov 18th · Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role.
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fullstackeconomics.com
No, the real inflation rate isn’t 15 percentfullstackeconomics.com
8 min read · Nov 17th · Jordan Peterson and Jack Dorsey are touting a bogus theory about the inflation rate.
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Noah Smith 🐇
Inflation Is Up, But the Inflation Truthers Are Still WrongNoah Smith 🐇
6 min read · Nov 13th · A guest post by John Aziz
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Project Syndicate
The Right Institutions for the Climate TransitionProject Syndicate
4 min read · Nov 16th · Although global climate commitments are important, they will not amount to much without the institutional foundation that the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs. That will require innovation…
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CNBC
Weekly jobless claims post stunning decline to 199,000, the lowest level since 1969CNBC
2 min read · Nov 24th · Initial claims for unemployment insurance were expected to total 260,000 for the week ended Nov. 20.
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The New York Times
Opinion | Wonking Out: How Global Is Inflation?The New York Times
4 min read · Nov 12th · And Queen Victoria as a differential equation.
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Business Insider
It's not a 'Great Resignation' that will change work forever, one economist says. His calculations show the…Business Insider
3 min read · Oct 30th · Daniel Alpert has a Jobs Quality Index showing that workers don't want crappy jobs. But he also has data showing they'll run out of cash soon.
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