Minding the perils of progress
To ensure future prosperity, we must adopt a growth strategy that places collective risks front and center, rather than...as an afterthought.
To ensure future prosperity, we must adopt a growth strategy that places collective risks front and center, rather than...as an afterthought.
Simon Johnson says: “There are more nuanced ways [than a shutdown] to react to the impending dangers.”
3. MIT Sloan: MBA students admitted to the Sloan School of Management can apply to enter the school's Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track.
Prof. Thomas Kochan says: "We have to open up our labor law to new forms…to bring...the knowledge and the information that workers can bring.”
“Look at the business model of Google, Facebook, Netflix. They're not in the business of creating new tasks for humans,” says Daron Acemoglu.
[Prof. Arnold] Barnett...expanded his analysis of airline empty middle seats by formulating a statistical study on traveling by car.
An MIT team suggests that global infections were 12 times higher and deaths 50% higher than officially reported.
"When people don't abide by the norms people nail them for it. That's called ‘third-party punishment.' We need that."
"As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ricochet across the country, the need for a coordinated response has never been more urgent."
“The most important part of conferences by far is what happens in the hallways,” he said, “not what happens in the meeting rooms.”