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mainstream economic theory is obsessed with the productivity of waged labour while skipping right over the unpaid work that makes it all possible,
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Over time, an increasing percentage of what we spend on government is spent on optional rather than core services because the core services tend to have been around longer. Another way of putting it is to say that the marginal value of added government, even if positive, falls as government grows larger. This statement is not antigovernment; it’s j
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2.5% of worker pay into a worker benefit account.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The “rise in income inequality” and the “slowdown in ideas production” are two ways of describing the same phenomenon, namely that current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
Relativity. That $5 tip George gave the server—on a free drink—and his $3.50 ATM fee don’t seem consequential compared to the stacks of chips surrounding him at the blackjack table or the $200 he was simultaneously taking out at the ATM. Those are relatively small amounts of money, and because he is thinking about them in relative terms, it is easi
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