Would anyone admit to a desire for unlimited wealth?
Andrew McAfee’s More From Less (2019) doesn’t have a lot do with the theme of this blog, but it does offer a counterpoint to Tim… Read More »Would anyone admit to a desire for unlimited wealth?
reviews
Review: Prosperity Without Growth
Tim Jackson’s Prosperity Without Growth (I read the second edition, published in 2016) tries to answer a question closely related to the theme of this… Read More »Review: Prosperity Without Growth
Review: The Globotics Upheaval
The portmanteau in the title of Richard Baldwin’s The Globotics Upheaval refers to the parallel development of automation and artificial intelligence on one hand, and… Read More »Review: The Globotics Upheaval
Am I creating value?
I recently read Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything (2018), which contends that the economy as it is presently constituted often rewards value “extraction” rather… Read More »Am I creating value?
Review: Five Day Weekend
Looking through bookstores over Christmas, I decided that I ought to read what some others have written about working reduced hours. The first that I… Read More »Review: Five Day Weekend