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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

I came out of a standard Keynesian economics education at Harvard College in 1979. It was remarkably closed: from what I could tell, we read Chicago economists , from whom the supply-side movement arose, exclusively to mock them. But I graduated into an economy that was couldn’t be explained by applying the tools I had been taught.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

” Besides, “there’s basically no country in the world where the consumer is not doing well,” added Bart van Ark, chief economist at The Conference Board. As for the people who actually provide those affordable consumer goods and services? In the U.S.,

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