What is “a business?” What is it really? What’s it actually doing? Tucked away in the appendix of Tyler Cowen’s book, Big Business: A Love Letter To An American Anti-Hero is an enlightening reflection on how he defines the word, which we can apply towards how we think about our own businesses. The standard concept … Continue reading Businesses As Carriers Of Reputation
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Podcast of the Week: Rethinking Community’s Importance in Creating Opportunity
Historically, economists have studied economic mobility by focusing on things like housing and job access, while leaving community and intra-personal relationships to the sociologists. Raghuram Rajan And Ashley Putnam are two of the cutting edge thinkers who are blending the sociological and economic literature together to show how our communities may have more to do … Continue reading Podcast of the Week: Rethinking Community’s Importance in Creating Opportunity