by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
that machine learning experts will maintain the same degree of leverage over AI, or that they will continue to receive the same share of the generated wealth, in the long run. Just as the benefits of public research are often privately appropriated, knowledge production generates externalities more generally. This includes research on
by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words
degraded as to render even the mines of Potosí not worth the working.”10 The grass, truly, is always greener. The silver did not produce generational wealth for Bolivians; much of that went to Spain’s empire, and the country has come to suffer what’s commonly known as the natural resource
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
’ medical costs. KCC brought technology and leadership skills to its employees, Donkin said, training up a new generation of Congolese who would be able to generate wealth for their country. The plethora of Congolese employees—engineers and technicians, drivers and managers—seemed to confirm that, even though a November report by Rights
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
power—a catalytic power—that platforms harness. Stated more formally, the most basic function of the platform is to enable mutually beneficial transactions—and thereby generate wealth or the satisfaction of human wants and needs. Platforms do so by solving not just one but several barriers that otherwise prevent transactions from occurring
by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman · 8 Jul 2024 · 207pp · 65,156 words
this problem, drawing in too many people who are looking not to build but to cash in. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have allowed founders to generate wealth without necessarily delivering on the impactful innovations they promised, often leaving the less savvy investor holding the bag. The sector has been rife with pump
by Marchelle Farrell · 2 Aug 2023 · 217pp · 76,056 words
they reassured me that, as their only child, so was mine. This was why they had done it: to create an inheritance. To build material generational wealth. Now they could afford to supplement the meagre living allowance of the academic scholarship that had allowed me to come to England; they wanted me
by Micah Goodman · 10 Nov 2020 · 234pp · 67,917 words
metaphor: “The wealth we have only saved since yesterday means poverty today and the impossibility of enriching ourselves tomorrow. . . . Let me hope that I may generate wealth myself, and do not make me a mere watchman of my ancestral estate.” See “Feelings of the Heart,” 91 [Hebrew]. Elsewhere, he wrote that instead
by Eric Klinenberg · 1 Jan 2012 · 291pp · 88,879 words
, “There is no such thing as society”), nor did he share their conviction that liberating individuals from the state was the most effective way to generate wealth and advance the common good. But he wasn’t entirely pessimistic, either. Durkheim argued that the modern division of labor would bind citizens organically. After
by David Sheff and Andy Eddy · 1 Jan 1993 · 500pp · 156,079 words
Japan are measured not in square feet or meters but in tatami mats—the book-thick, rectangular sections of sweet-smelling, woven straw. In past generations, wealth was measured by the number of mats (each smaller than a twin bed) in a family’s home. The average home has eight or ten
by Nik Bhatia · 18 Jan 2021
the quintessential money. This anointment was responsible for a tremendous advance in the globalization of human civilization, as precious metals provided improved ways to preserve generational wealth and facilitate trade between complete strangers in different corners of the planet. Selecting what was to be used as money wasn’t always easy. Shells
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