“By making our defenseless planet the ultimate beneficiary of our economic activity, we align our values with a different set of motivations. When we begin to see life as an interdependent mesh, we place the survival of the human species on equal footing with our economic interests and ourselves.”
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
“We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.”
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
“Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.”
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
“The job of the Federal Reserve is “to know when to remove the punch bowl at the party.” Under Alan Greenspan’s leadership its motto became “let’s all get drunk and see what happens.” It is now the morning after and the world will be dealing with Greenspan’s hangover for the next several decades.”
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
― MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
“we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.”
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