分类目录归档：economic
Our ability to create and sustain economic growth
is the defining challenge of our time.
Of course there are other challenges --
health care, disease burdens and pandemics,
environmental challenges
an
Imagine you're walking through a forest.
I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees,
what we foresters call a stand,
with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns.
Yes, trees are the f
There is a narrative,
an idea that with resilience, grit and personal responsibility
people can pull themselves up and achieve economic success.
In the United States we call it the American dream.
A s
Value creation.
Wealth creation.
These are really powerful words.
Maybe you think of finance, you think of innovation,
you think of creativity.
But who are the value creators?
If we use that word, we
We are at the end of globalization.
We've taken globalization for granted,
and as it drifts into history, we're going to miss it.
The second wave of globalization began in the early '90s,
and it deliv
you all know the truth of what I'm gonna
say
I think the intuition that inequality is
divisive and socially corrosive has been
around since before the French
Revolution what's changed is we now can
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How much would you pay for a bouquet of tulips?
A few dollars? A hundred dollars?
How about a million dollars?
Probably not.
Well, how much would you pay for this house,
or partial ownership of a we
For millennia,
the people of Britain had been using bronze to make tools and jewelry,
and as a currency for trade.
But around 800 BCE, that began to change:
the value of bronze declined, causing soc
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we seldom talk about economic abuse
there is a silence around it even though
in the legal definition of family
violence in australia and in some other
countries
economic abuse is seen as fa