Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (October 15, 2021)
Brazil’s Central Bank's Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users; Renewable energy seems set to repeat many of the mistakes of fossil fuels; In Defense of Public Debt; Tackling Inequality in Japan
Read: Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users [via Bloomberg]
Read: What the Success of Squid Games Says About Netflix’s Business Model [via Vulture]
Read: Renewable energy seems set to repeat many of the mistakes of fossil fuels. The geography and corporate structure of these industries concentrate benefits and exclude communities in the style of Big Oil. Poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice. [via Boston Review]
Watch: How Japan's richest families got to be so rich. How the authorities came to attack and consume their fortunes. And what doing so meant for the Japanese economy post-War. [via Asianometry]
Watch: Barry Eichengreen on his latest book "In Defense of Public Debt" [via Princeton Economics]
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