There are some extremely powerful and useful concepts only introduced here. This requires more study to really absorb. As I understand it one of the implications of this work is that innovation is key to the survival of cities, but doesn't help much for companies.
Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
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Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts
Monday, August 15, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Rethinking Growth
Herman Daly is an ecological economist and co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Economics. As the World Bank’s senior environmental economist from 1988 to 1994, Daly focused on Latin American poverty and development and helped to establish the discipline of ecological economics. Today, based at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Daly spoke with Seed editor Maywa Montenegro about growth, technology, happiness, and the steady-state economy.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Beyond Success
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