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Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Economists often use the expression “economic pie” to describe the total value of all resources available for pursuing our goals, so any step that reduces waste would be said to make the economic pie larger.
Success and Luck
Robert H. Frank
If countries are to retain any dependable link to the international market under these conditions, they must find some way to insert themselves into industrial lines. Between 2001 and 2007, rising rates of global manufacturing expansion briefly created an opening for export-led development across the BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), inspiring some economists to theorize that the incomes of richer and poorer regions were converging, reversing their centuries-long divergence due to the lasting legacy of colonialism. However, this mini-boom turned out to depend on debt-fueled consumption in the high-income countries, which ended abruptly after the 2007 deflation of the US housing bubble—once again revealing a wider tendency to industrial overcapacity and underinvestment worldwide.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
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