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Economic Growth

Output, innovation, productivity, sustainability – all these concepts and more affect the growth and development of economies. But should macroeconomic growth always be the ultimate goal for a society? Titles in this channel deal with the components of development and the impacts of changes in nations’ growth trajectories.

Summaries

9 Book

Growth
A History and a Reckoning
Daniel Susskind
Belknap Press, 2024
7 Article

How Ozempic could change the economy as we know it
Cork Gaines and Allie Kelly
Business Insider UK, 2024
8 Report

Heartland Visas
How a new place-based, high-skilled visa can help revive growth in the American Heartland
John Lettieri et al.
EIG, 2024
7 Article

Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?
The smartphone economy is booming — and it also feels awful.
John Herrman
New York Magazine, 2023
8 Report

The Dollar’s Imperial Circle
Ozge Akinci et al.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2023
Book

The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
How the Handover from Boomers to Gen Z Will Revolutionize Capitalism
Ken Costa
Bloomsbury, 2024
8 Report

Machines of Mind
The Case for an AI-Powered Productivity Boom
Martin Neil Baily et al.
Brookings Institution, 2023
9 Book

The Return of Depression Economics
Paul Krugman
W.W. Norton, 1999
8 Report

Money on Autopilot: The Future of AI x Personal Finance
Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya
a16z, 2023
8 Article

Not Just Another Recession
Why the Global Economy May Never Be the Same
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Foreign Affairs, 2022
8 Book

The Great Demographic Reversal
Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
7 Article

The Resurgence of the Rest
Can Emerging Markets Find New Paths to Growth?
Ruchir Sharma
Foreign Affairs, 2021