Wealth Creation

Expanding what we can actually do

Expanding what we actually do (as opposed to only doing what we can afford) is about who wields power: about human agency versus dependency.

A Litmus Test for System Health

Why people feel the things they do can be studied and understood. We can use that understanding to design better policies and institutions.

29. What makes humans tick?

If we can’t answer this question, we can’t design effective institutions. And without them, we can sustainably enrich humans’ lives.

28. Why do humans make things?

To make their lives better, of course. But ‘better’ isn’t about ‘making money’ or ‘economic growth’. It’s about realising our humanity.

27. Searching for ‘Better’: Engine of Wealth Creation

New technologies often unleash cascades of unexpected good (and bad) social, economic and political change. Is this process ‘manageable’?

The Cinderella of wealth creation

Most of us take it for granted yet our lives depend on it: infrastructure. We miss so much when we overlook its power and potential.

24. Is changing how we spend money the answer to our problems?

Why focusing on ‘how our society spends its money’ dooms us to repeat the same mistakes. Forever.

23. Why money doesn’t measure wealth

The belief that money equals wealth and that things which ‘make money’ create wealth runs deep in our society. Just how wrong can we be?

20. Money as an instrument of power

Textbooks tell us that money is a medium of exchange and a store of value. What they don’t talk about is its role as an instrument of…

19. Who will pay for the Covid bailout?

How mind-forged manacles risk causing post-virus economic misery.

The argument about how the Covid-19 bailout will be paid for and by who is already beginning to rage. In his last act as the…