What We’re Reading: Economy

A collection of musings that inspire and provoke us.

Readings collected in July 2020

We’re looking towards the future this month with these rapid developments in economic innovation. How can we leverage social physics, the idea that we can use data to map out patterns of human behavior, to help drive advancements in our post-covid world? Now more than ever we’re seeing technology being used to both observe and change our economy.

• L’ATELIER: The Virtual Economy
• BCG: How Deep Tech Can Help Shape the New Reality
• Humana: Humana Announces Support for Louisville to Help Rebuild and Unite City
• MIT Technology Review: Social Physics
• Data Driven Investor: A fork in the road to hell: The perils and the hope of the moral economy
• Think with Google: Why human metrics are just as important as business metrics
• Deloitte: Superlearning: Reskilling, upskilling and outskilling for a future-proof workforce
• The Sociology of Business: The End of Efficiency
• Perkins & Will: A Brand’s Role in Furthering Human Connection
• Visual Capitalist: 10 Types of Innovation: The Art of Discovering a Breakthrough Product