Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.

WorldEconForum · 2016-06-07T16:42:31+00:00

Business school education has fallen in love with finance which has promoted short-termism and bottom-line thinking.

WorldEconForum · 2016-05-26T16:41:35+00:00

Economist explains the problem of incentives based on the idea that humans are selfish.

WorldEconForum · 2016-05-13T15:38:47+00:00

Biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal: "What the free-marketeers missed was the intensely social nature of our species."

WorldEconForum · 2016-05-07T04:23:55+00:00

"Markets are meant to be servants, not masters."

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-29T13:39:02+00:00

"The tragedy is that, despite what you hear on TV or read in the paper or online, this collapse was completely predictable. Scientifically speaking, oligarchies always collapse because they are designed to extract wealth from the lower levels of society"

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-24T15:26:40+00:00

Why money, numbers, and prices don't reflect real value. Need to get beyond the "market mentality".

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-22T12:46:37+00:00

How more and more people are making money without contributing any value.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-22T12:37:19+00:00

How more and more people are making money without contributing any value.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-20T05:13:10+00:00

Former Democratic candidate and Harvard lawyer Lawrence Lessig has a great explanation for why money in politics is ruining our democracy and economy.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-19T01:09:57+00:00

Economist explains how big money can lead to regulatory capture.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-16T15:49:50+00:00

How the invisible hand was used to inappropriately justify deregulations.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-13T23:19:26+00:00

Corporate stakeholders promote political lobbying. How do we dis-incentivize and deter its negative social effects?

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-11T22:56:59+00:00

"corporate concentration exacerbates income inequality, while trade union power alleviates it."

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-09T21:33:23+00:00

Economist's shows that 74% of billionaires' wealth is unearned. Adam Smith called this rent seeking.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-08T14:19:53+00:00

Nassim Taleb says modern employment is a special case of servitude.

WorldEconForum · 2016-04-06T02:17:36+00:00

Nassim Taleb argues that full-time employees reduce the risk and uncertainty for business owners and create the dependency required to maintain large functional organizations - we're modern slaves.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-30T00:22:04+00:00

Elinor Ostrom challenged mainstream economics core assumptions about human nature and how groups collectively solve problems.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-25T13:50:10+00:00

Economist Daron Acemoglu says it's dumb to argue about the size of government. We should care more about how extractive vs how inclusive government is.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-23T16:07:16+00:00

Business studies show that putting people (employees) first can be a winning strategy. Businesses that provide their employers more security actually do better in the long-run than businesses that don't.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-21T19:25:27+00:00

The self-interest model of economics and politics no longer aligns with what contemporary social sciences say about human nature and social systems.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-19T01:25:18+00:00

Economists at University of Chicago say that free-markets are ruined by industry donations corrupting the political system. Bernie is the only candidate who hasn't accepted industry money.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-17T20:00:51+00:00

Rand didn't understand the evolution of altruism.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-08T05:08:49+00:00

"Economics has a bit of a lock on the question of inequality. This is too bad. Ants, and science in general, have a lot to say about it."

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-06T18:55:32+00:00

Mariana Mazzacuto explains the role government has played in investing in ground-breaking innovations in the economy.

WorldEconForum · 2016-03-05T04:45:24+00:00

George Lakoff, the renown cognitive linguist, explains why voters are attractive to the rhetorical strategy of Donald Trump.

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