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The Roaring Nineties

As the chairman of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, and subsequently as the chief economist of the World Bank during the East Asian financial crisis, Joseph Sitglitz was deeply involved in many of the economic-policy debates of the past ten years. What did this experience tell him? That much of what we think we know about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Here … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Economics

T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Ambition, Personality / Behavior

Seeing Around Corners

The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail-but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work.

Editor’s Note: This is a brilliant … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Rauch | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Miscellaneous

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ‘Is it good in itself?’ In the second, ‘Can it be easily put into practice?’

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Bill Veeck

When they listen to your ravings with indulgence, and, heaven help me, affection, you know you’ve joined the herd.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

The New Old Economy: Oil, Computers, and the Reinvention of the Earth

“The New Economy is based on the production of knowledge. The Old Economy is based on natural resources and the production of physical goods. Now the line between them is beginning to blur. A New Old Economy is making productivity surge and ushering in an Age of Plenty.”

Excellent article looks specifically at the Oil industry and how it has moved into the modern technology era. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Rauch | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis | Industry: Petro / Chemical

What Global Language?

English isn’t managing to sweep all else before it – and if it ever does become the universal language, many of those who speak it won’t understand one another.

Content: Article | Author: Barbara Wallraff | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: International

Where Europe Vanishes

The Caucasus region — bounded by Russia and Iran, by the Black Sea and the Caspian — is rich in oil and hatred. It is where Stalin was born, and where the Soviet empire died.

Content: Article | Author: Robert D. Kaplan | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: International – Europe

What Is an Economy For?

Atlantic Monthly article discusses differences between Asian and Western economic systems

Content: Article | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Economics

The Age of Social Transformation

Peter Drucker analyzes industrialization’s latest manifestations: an economic order where knowledge is the key resource; a social order where inequality based on knowledge is a major challenge; and a polity where government can’t solve social and economic problems.

Content: Article | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)