Weekend Reading, Watching, and Listening Recommendations (December 11, 2020)

What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change; What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality?; How to Be an Inclusive Leader; The Economy After Covid:

1. Read: What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change . You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context. [via The Atlantic]

2. Read: What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality? [via UNU Wider]

3. Read: How VCs can avoid another bloodbath as the clean-tech boom 2.0 begins: The last clean-tech investment frenzy ended in disaster. Investors insist they've learned their lessons. [via Technology Review]

4. Listen: How to Be an Inclusive Leader [via Knowledge@Wharton]

5. Listen: Dr. Eswar Prasad of Cornell University talks about why the US dollar reigns supreme and will likely continue to do so, the various initiatives that would increase the role of the Chinese RMB in global payments, and the promises and challenges of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).  [via DBS Kopi Time]

6. Watch: The Economy After Covid: Mariana Mazzucato and Ha-Joon Chang

7. Watch: Bringing High-Tech Healthcare to India’s Poor