MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee were on 60 Minutes yesterday discussing their book Race Against the Machine, which describes how computers (in particular, robots & digitally enabled technologies) are increasingly displacing...
Read More →It was great to see The Coming Prosperity featured this weekend in the Wall Street Journal‘s Spring book review section, along with Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma (head of emerging markets for Morgan Stanley) and Need, Speed,...
Read More →We’ll, I can’t say I didn’t ask for it. When you title your book The Coming Prosperity, you can expect to be called an “optimist” at minimum–even “Dr. Boom” or the “Permabull.” You...
Read More →Reviews “How the World Gets Ahead,” Matthew Rees, The Wall Street Journal The Coming Prosperity is filled with vivid profiles of men and women who have succeeded under harsh conditions…But The Coming Prosperity...
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Here’s how The Coming Prosperity begins… This is a book about the unparalleled possibilities of now.
Read More →On Friday I posted a review of Acemoglu and Robinson’s new book, Why Nations Fail to the Kauffman Foundation’s Growthology blog: Growthology: The Neutron Book?: The advertised central thesis of the book (in contrast with...
Read More →Review of Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think, New York: Free Press, 2012. The human community occupies a planet of finite resources. As population grows, people...
Read More →Here’s the video from a panel I moderated at the launch event for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011. The topic of the panel was “Collaborative Advantage: How Diaspora Entrepreneurs Are Creating Connections for Shared Prosperity.”...
Read More →From chapter 13 of The Coming Prosperity (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, March 2012) Among the items in the back of the hardware store, right next to the lime, is ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate is...
Read More →I did a phone interview last week with Josh Landis from CBS News Sunday on the topic of the world at 7 billion. Josh and his “The Fast Draw” partner Mitch Butler drew from the...
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