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There's a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, if you are from a nonwhite background, what you talk about has to be generated from your identity in some way. But if you're a white person you can go anywhere you want. You can talk about Asian cuisines, you can talk about African or African American cuisines, you can talk about South American cuisines.
No Meat Required
Alicia Kennedy
Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefits to people-their time, agency, comfort, and health-optimizing them for price, much less revenue and profit, misses these important aspects.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In a world of investment projects whose costs and risks are perfectly transparent, most individuals would be frightened. Real enterprise is very risky. Further, the probability of success of any one project depends upon the degree to which other projects are simultaneously underway.
Why Is Finance So Complex?
Nick Rowe
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