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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm. Deep debts.