Economics
Capitalism and Entrepreneurship in Socialist China
Contrary to popular belief, the modern Chinese economy did not spring into being in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping’s call for “Reform and Opening Up.” Rather, it was a product of an incremental, bottom-up transformation, decades…
Microsoft’s Weyl on Rethinking Capitalism | Equality Summit
E. Glen Weyl, Microsoft principal researcher and author of “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society” presents at the Bloomberg Equality Summit in New York. #BloombergEquality
Glen Weyl: What If We Could Sustainably Decentralise Power, Using the Blockchain?
Private property, modern liberalism, the worldwide web – all of these inventions were supposed to be about decentralising power, but with every single one we have seen reconcentrations. Glen Weyl is Microsoft’s principal researcher; a…
Employment Demand Forecasting
Using search query data from Bing, we estimate demand for employment across a variety of employment sectors and at county geographic scale in the U.S. We then show how demand for different types of work…