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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

And with that recognition, economic power shifted to its suppliers. before overhead and marketing and distribution costs) of his next project, the 1981 blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark , in exchange for directing and producing the movie, which made him a multi-billionaire and changed the balance of power between stars and studios.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. But for several decades it’s been clear that the gains of modernization for some have produced substantial losses for others.

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