9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Welcome to the YOLO Economy
The 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.
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
Visual Capitalist
Ranked: The Most Innovative Economies in the World
Visual 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?
World Economic Forum
A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishing
World 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.
WIRED UK
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened
WIRED 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…
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…
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.
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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The New York Times
Welcome to the YOLO Economy
The 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.
The Atlantic
Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed
The Atlantic
6 min read · Apr 23rd · The label “low-skill” flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the jobs they do.
Paul Graham
How People Get Rich Now
Paul Graham
9 min read · Apr 12th · April 2021Every year since 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the richest Americans. If we compare the 100 richest people in 1982 to the 100 richest in 2020, we notice some big…
The New York Times
Opinion | The Woman Who Shattered the Myth of the Free Market
The New York Times
6 min read · Apr 24th · Joan Robinson upended the misogynistic good-old-boys’ network of economists and devised theories around competition and labor vital to the antitrust debates of today.
richardhanania.substack.com
Why is Everything Liberal?
richardhanania.substack.com
~13 min read · Apr 21st · Cardinal Preferences Explain Why All Institutions are Woke
Guardian US
Los Angeles could become largest US city to trial universal basic income
Guardian US
3 min read · Apr 21st · $1,000-a-month per family pilot program in new budget, following similar schemes in Stockton, Oakland and San Francisco
annehelen.substack.com
The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy
annehelen.substack.com
8 min read · Apr 22nd · This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Subscribers: If you haven’t activated…
London Review of Books
Adam Tooze · The Gatekeeper: Krugman’s Conversion
London Review of Books
20+ min read · Apr 14th · ‘If it were announced that we faced a threat from space aliens and needed to build up to defend ourselves,’ Paul...
The New York Times
The Economy Is (Almost) Back. It Will Look Different Than It Used To.
The New York Times
4 min read · Apr 29th · The recovery is profoundly unequal across sectors, unbalanced in ways that have big implications for businesses and workers.
The New York Times
Opinion | F.D.R. Didn’t Just Fix the Economy
The New York Times
5 min read · Apr 16th · He saved democracy itself.
