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The video from Primal Space below gives a fascinating insight into Ikea’s history, furniture manufacturing, engineering practices, and cost-saving focus. The video shows the …
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The video from Primal Space below gives a fascinating insight into Ikea’s history, furniture manufacturing, engineering practices, and cost-saving focus. The video shows the …
The current zeitgeist suggests we’re in an AI bubble, and it may even be starting to deflate as I write this. With that in mind, I’ve been revisiting writing on how speculative …
Interesting article from The Economist on debates about economic models and theories. The author notes a return to evolutionary economics compared to the neoclassical approach …
Rich Mogull writes at TidBITS (a blog focusing on Apple products and technologies) about Apple’s latest Platform Security user guide. He notes how the emphasis for increasing …
Ben Thomas on Stratchery.com writes why he considers Tesla a “meme company”: It turned out, though, that TSLA was itself a meme, one about a car company, but also sustainability, …
This article from The Financial Times titled “What the South Sea Company can teach us” explores the history book “Money For Nothing” by Thomas Levenson on The South Sea Bubble. …
Helen Lewis writes at The Atlantic magazine about how “Pandemics affect men and women differently”. The coronavirus crisis will be global and long-lasting, economic as well as …
A quote from the Freakonomics podcast “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War”: [Peter Timmer]: I used to ask my class, I’m talking 1985, “Where is the world’s largest …
Fareed Zakaria in an article from Foreign Policy on “The End of Economics”: Let me be clear: Economics remains a vital discipline, one of the most powerful ways we have to …
As an author from Wired tried to sell his personal data and found out it isn’t worth much, some economists made the following valid remark. Yet data can be worth a good deal in the …