Beyond Advertising: Will Micropayments Sustain the New Internet?
The “secret sauce” for micropayments: Part II in a series
David Brin
Browsing: Business
How Bad Biology is Killing the Economy
The flaws in the competition-is-good-for-you logic
Frans de Waal
Business Schools Should Start Teaching How to Create Value, Not Extract It!
How MBA programs drive wealth inequality
Lynn Parramore
Advertising Cannot Maintain the Internet. Here’s the “Secret Sauce” Solution.
Can pay-for-use stimulate commerce and save modern journalism?
David Brin
Why We Should Tax and Shame Excessive Corporate Lobbying
Does a CEO have a duty to lobby?
Luigi Zingales
How Bernie Sanders Was the Only Candidate to Uphold an Essential Pro-Market Principle
Why money in politics allows those in power to determine the rules of the game
Guy Rolnik
The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
The dominant business philosophy debunked
Lynn Stout
How Mainstream Economics Helps Businesses Manipulate our Minds
Do we really decide what we want?
John Komlos
Fighting Wall Street Predators with Game Theory
Punishing the financial defectors
David Sloan Wilson
Business Schools Have It Backwards. Companies Survive Longer When They Put Employees First.
Maximizing profits over the short term typically undermines the viability of a company over the long term.
David Sloan Wilson
The Ideology of Self-interest Caused the Financial Crash. We Need a New Economic Paradigm
Scientists develop an alternative to Homo economicus
Mark van Vugt, Michael E. Price
More Evidence That Learning Economics Makes You Selfish
The perils of teaching homo-economicus
Adam Grant
When Deliberation Isn’t Smart
Cooperation, defection, and intuitions in the workplace
Adam Bear, David Rand
How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy
The corporate workplaces probably aren’t in sync with our evolutionary roots and may not be good for our long-term success
Eric Michael Johnson
Ayn Rand Never Built a Company. The Morality of Entrepreneurship
The ingredients of innovation economies
Victor W. Hwang
The Future of Organizational Management: Ecological Systems Thinking
Most of what passes for novel thinking in management now is merely the slapping of new labels onto old ideas.
Victor W. Hwang
The Myths of Philanthropy. Morals not Markets Make us Give
Is philanthropy driven by morality or markets?
Eric Michael Johnson
Why Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Failed Miserably at Applying Darwinian Competition to His Business
Contrary to Amazon endorsed practices, ruthless competition doesn’t create functional organizations
David Sloan Wilson
Biology, Not Economics, Explains America’s Startup Strength
We can look to mother nature for business innovation
Victor W. Hwang
The CEO of Sears Fails His Company by Believing in Ayn Rand and the Invisible Hand
Why promoting only individual level competition is disastrous.
