Tag results for: economics
Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience
Fleming believed that growth has natural limits. Things grow to maturity—kids into adults, saplings into trees, startups into full-fledged companies—but growth beyond that point is, in his words,...
Sorry, GDP. There Are Other Ways to Measure a Nation’s Worth
On June 3, 2022, as United Nations members gathered to celebrate the 50th World Environment Day, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was time to eschew using gross domestic...
The Time for ‘Catalytic Government’ Is Now
In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the Government, and I'm here to help.” In...
A New EU Rule Can Expose Greenwashers
In 2023, all companies listed on regulated markets in the European Union will begin applying the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a new rule that will require them...
Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
And right now, Opendoor’s behavior, driven by the data it sees, augurs bad tidings ahead. “Right now, they're trying to sell as much of their inventory as fast...
To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up
There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to...
