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Collaborative Fund

Endless Uncertainty

Collaborative Fund
3 min read · May 26th · The night before the D-Day invasion, a nervous Franklin Roosevelt asked his wife Eleanor how she felt about not knowing what would happen next. “To be nearly sixty years old and still rebel at…
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The future is always endlessly unpredictable. What changes isn’t the level of uncertainty, but the level of people’s complacency.
Guardian Books

The big idea: should we work less?

Guardian Books
5 min read · 2021-10-11 · 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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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.
Guardian Environment

Capitalism is killing the planet

Guardian Environment
~13 min read · 2021-10-30 · 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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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
Visual Capitalist

Ranked: The Most Innovative Economies in the World

Visual Capitalist
~17 min read · From 2020 · 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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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.
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Aeon+Psyche

The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth

Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 2021-05-04 · Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
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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.
Collaborative Fund

Once In A Lifetime

Collaborative Fund
3 min read · Jun 7th · I want to try to explain part of why the world seems so crazy these days. Evelyn Marie Adams won $3.9 million in the New Jersey lottery in 1986. Four months later she won again, collecting another…
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The world breaks about once every ten years, on average. For your country, state, town, or business, once every one to three years is probably more common
Vox

Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?

Vox
~17 min read · 2021-08-03 · The "degrowth" movement to fight the climate crisis offers a romantic, utopian vision. But it’s not a policy agenda.
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It’s a bold, even romantic vision. But there are two problems with it: It doesn’t add up — and it would be nearly impossible to implement.
WIRED UK

This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened

WIRED 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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Vox

“I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary.”

Vox
7 min read · From 2020 · 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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Aeon+Psyche

Economics is once again becoming a worldly science

Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · Jan 13th · After generations of ‘blackboard economics’, Berkeley and MIT are leading a return to economics that studies the real world
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a preponderance of research that has shown no meaningful disemployment effects of raising minimum wages.
The New Yorker

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?

The New Yorker
9 min read · From 2020 · The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
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