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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. And with that recognition, economic power shifted to its suppliers. But it held sway in the halls of power in the early days of the talent revolution — a decade whose seismic shift is still sending out aftershocks.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

While it’s true that white male workers were given preference over minorities and women in hiring and pay, most of the gains made by white working-class men in that era came not from their advantages over minorities but from their greater bargaining power vis-à-vis employers. In the U.S.,

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