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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (July 31)

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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (July 31)

Reinventing the state after COVID-19, Microsoft did the math on how work has changed with HBW, Economic Geography and Path Dependence, How Exposure To Different People and Cultures Improves Creativity

Abhas K. Jha
Jul 30, 2020
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  1. Read: Reinventing the state after COVID-19: The job of government is to protect its citizens. The pandemic reveals that key institutions in Europe and the U.S. are no longer up to the job write Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait  and his co-author Adrian Wooldridge

  2. Read: Microsoft did the math on how work has changed with HBW. Employees have started using night hours to catch up on work — and not only focused on individual work. During the pandemic, the share of IMs sent between 6 PM and midnight has increased by 52%. [From the Harvard Business Review]

  3. Read: GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters. Joe Stiglitz says it’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability

  4. Watch: Economic Geography and Path Dependence | Dave Donaldson (MIT): Economic activity in modern economies is staggeringly concentrated. For example, almost 20% of value-added in the United States is currently produced in just three cities, which occupy a mere 1.5% of the country’s land area. What is the cause of this extreme agglomeration of economic activity in a relatively select few locations?

  1. Watch: Creating a Credible and Trusted Digital Currency | DAVOS 2020: What trends are shaping the future of digital currencies?

  1. Listen: Creativity and Diversity: How Exposure To Different People and Cultures Improves Creativity. Scientific research papers with more diversity in their authors have more citations. Yo-Yo Ma has created the Silk Road Ensemble, which has won multiple Grammys, where they explore the “edge effect”-the space where two ecosystems meet, and magic happens.

  2. Listen: When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

  3. Chart: The Environmental Cost of Different Protein Sources

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