A case for more homes built by people The Shire My image of the United Kingdom is a market town ensconced in green hills. Its square church tower stands out from an otherwise modest skyline. The high street is lined by a Tudor pub, a former Georgian bank branch turned…

John Mackey, Founder and CEO of Whole Foods: “Amazon allowed Whole Foods to think long term again. We needed to cut our prices but when you’re a public company if you’re selling something for a dollar and you say ‘you know what, we need to sell this for 90 cents’…

This is your brain on central banking, regulatory capture, and financialization. Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers The everything bubble has popped. In the end it wasn’t PE ratios that imploded under their own stupendous highs, nor the conceptual insanity of negative rates triggering bank runs. The Euro didn’t fall apart…

“For over seventy years, the advanced societies of the world have preened themselves in the mirror and mostly admired what they saw: growth.” So starts The Growth Delusion by David Pilling. Its subject is Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, and the importance our societies have put on growing GDP. Indeed…

Urban Trinity, or How Ideas Shape Cities First, pelt merchants from the North, travelling south in search of trade, would meet spice merchants from the South. From meetings were born marketplaces, and confluences of people, pulling in more and more human energy, forced expansion to towns, and from towns to cities. Roads would follow the contours of…