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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. They make us more efficient and productive.

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

Adopting the Chicago School’s assumptions of self-correcting markets, composed of rational, self-interested market participants, some courts and enforcers sacrificed important political, social, and moral values to promote certain economic beliefs. Competition, for them, was innately effective.