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a collection of articles and videos about Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Germany
a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
A collection of resources about cities and drinking water, exploring the interplay between rivers, groundwater, water policy, and climate change. Key themes include urban water management, sustainable practices, policy frameworks, and the impact of climate variability on water quality and availability.
Impact investing: “investors seeking to do good. Some consider social impact investing a sort of pseudophilanthropy because the returns aren’t always the main goal...
A collection of resources about global startup hubs and innovation clusters, exploring their role in fostering entrepreneurship, collaboration, and economic growth. Key themes include ecosystem development, funding opportunities, technology transfer, and the impact of cultural diversity on innovation.
A collection of resources about innovation and entrepreneurship in France, exploring key challenges and issues faced by startups. This compilation covers regulatory environments, funding landscapes, cultural factors, and case studies of successful ventures, providing insights into fostering a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem.
A collection of resources about Innovation and Entrepreneurship in France, this compilation explores the dynamic landscape of business creation and technological advancement within the country. It covers key themes such as the historical context of French entrepreneurship, government policies supporting startups, and the role of innovation hubs ...
A collection of articles and videos looking at Renewable Energy and Global Warming
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A collection of resources about Cleantech, Renewable Energy, and Investing provides comprehensive insights into the intersection of sustainable technology and financial growth. This collection explores innovative solutions in energy efficiency, solar, wind, and other renewable sources, emphasizing their potential to mitigate climate change and p...
A collection of resources about China’s economic development, infrastructure, and urbanism, this compilation explores the transformative changes in China’s economy over the past few decades. It provides a comprehensive overview of key themes such as rapid urbanization, the role of infrastructure in economic growth, and the impact of government p...
Recommendations of Best movies for learning Finance and Economics
Spain - innovation, startups and entrepreneurship
How to foster Startup Ecosystems, innovative hubs, and entrepreneurial communities
A collection of resources about London's startup ecosystem, showcasing its role as a global hub for entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology, with insights into key industries, networks, and support systems.
Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters in the USA. A collection of resources about startup hubs and innovation clusters across the USA, highlighting alternatives to Silicon Valley and exploring emerging ecosystems fostering entrepreneurship and innovation
Why host the Olympics or World Cup event?
A collection of articles about the Costs of hosting Olympics or World Cup events
A collection of articles and videos looking at nyc
Coal towns and Economic Development
A collection of articles and videos looking at Startups in the Midwestern region of the USA
Detroit and Economic Development in the Midwest
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Business in Germany - culture, innovation
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Article

Can Berlin become Europe’s most builder-friendly tech city in 24 months?

With €2.2B in VC, 283 AI startups, and 150,000 jobs at stake, Berlin auf die Eins aims to remove the structural friction holding the city back fro... (2026)


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Penang: Welcome to Asia’s secret Silicon island

There is more to Singapore’s sister city than a stroll down memory lane | Asia (2025)


Article

Why all Indians are rule-breakers

Because the state makes it impossible not to be | Asia (2025)


Article

Malaga, Spain: Picasso’s home town is thriving

Spain. Sunshine in Malaga Valley. But will Málaga fall victim to its own success? | Europe (2025)


Article

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc. How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region

It will have to confront the charge of elitism | Leaders (2025)


Article

Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”

Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)


Article

The Olympics and The new geography of Paris

Reshaping the French capital and its banlieues | Europe (2024)


Article

Silicon rally: As San Francisco builds the future of technology, can it rebuild itself?

Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)


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Paths to prosperity. How to get rich in the 21st century

The race to become the next economic superpower | Finance & economics (2024)


Article

Investment policy: Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France

Rivals on the Rhine. It is not how things used to be | Europe (2023)


Article

The Mittelstand will redeem German innovation

Deutschland AG’s bright light bulb | Business (2023)


Article

Redividing the world. Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”

Special report, the world economy. Introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams | Special report (2023)


Article

Artificial intelligence. Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race

Can Falcon soar? It has released the world’s most powerful open-source model, and will soon launch an AI company | Business (2023)


Article

Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model

A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)


Article

Lost Water in Amman, Jordan

The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)


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Latin America could become this century’s commodity superpower

Commodities in the 21st century. A growing, greening world will be ravenous for Latin America’s commodities. Will it deliver? | The Americas (2023)


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The next commodity boom. How Latin America could be a commodities superpower

It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom | Leaders (2023)


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De-growth: Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)


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Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)


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China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis

A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)


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China’s startup boom. A new breed of unicorn. How to make it big in Xi Jinping’s China

The government is favoring firms at the heart of a tech transformation. We crunch the numbers on the country’s most valuable startups | Business (2023)


Article

Labour’s green industrial policy will not cure Britain’s economic ills | The Economist

Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)


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How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist

The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)


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Why the gusty North Sea could give Europe an industrial edge | The Economist

Wind power is breathing life into a new green economy on its coasts | Leaders (2023)


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America Inc. - The Economist

From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)


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If Latin America has a commercial capital, it is Miami | The Economist

Despite not being in Latin America, it offers cash, connections and creativity to the region | The Americas (2022)


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Why an agricultural boom does not help rural America | The Economist

Farms are ever more profitable, but employ fewer workers | United States (2022)


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Radical Research. Healthy Curiosity | The Economist

How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)


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This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO

The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)


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Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Video

Why Bhutan is Building the Anti-Dubai

Is this the happiest place on earth? (2025)


Video

Why Everyone is Leaving New Zealand

Unveil the stunning secret of New Zealand—a paradise losing its young talent! With just 5.3 million people, this remote gem boasts top-notch livin... (2025)


Video

Why no one wants to host the Olympics

and should there be a permanent host? (2024)


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How Singapore Got So Crazy Rich

Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)


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Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy

Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)


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Why West Virginia is so Poor

Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)


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Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?

Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)


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Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea

Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)


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Green Hydrogen in Namibia: This $10BN Desert Megaproject is a Game Changer

This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)


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Why Silicon Valley is here

Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)


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TED Talk: Why societies collapse | Jared Diamond

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)


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Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots | WSJ

From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)


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Italy is Building a New Tech Capital in Milan

This digital twin is turning an area of Milan into Italy's new tech capital. (2023)


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How Singapore Solved Housing

How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)


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Perpetual Crisis: Why Argentina is not rich

Perpetual Crisis: Why Argentina is not rich (2022)


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The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System

The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)


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How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara

How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)


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Detroit’s rise, fall and future: Why Detroit Is Tearing Down A Highway

The city of Detroit is bouncing back from its legendary 2013 bankruptcy filing. Depopulation driven by the rise of global trade threw the city into... (2022)


Video

This Town Was Paradise, Then Everyone Started Working From Home

Freed from traditional offices, remote workers are relocating all over the country, fueling "Zoom booms" in remote towns. In Crested Butte, Colorad... (2021)


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The Loophole Behind NYC's Skinny Skyscrapers - Cheddar Explains

New York has always been home to some of the world’s tallest towers, but in the last 10 years the city has seen an influx of super skinny buildings... (2021)


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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Raleigh: History of the Research Triangle - North Carolina

Learn about the Research Triangle from Bob Geolas, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who explains what the t... (2020)


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The New York City Evolution Animation

Learn more about this project: http://www.myleszhang.org/here-grows-new-york-city/ This animation illustrates the development of NYC’s street grid ... (2019)


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Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco

VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)


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The Town That Facebook Built | The B1M

How the headquarters of the world's largest social network went from a Harvard dorm room to the vast site it occupies today. For more by The B1M su... (2019)


Video

#SDGsInMiami

Together 18 Miami leaders from 5 verticals - Education /Technology /Enterprises /City /People - shared their initiatives and projects related to th... (2018)


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The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


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Understanding the Dimensions of Sustainable Development

simpleshow Published on Aug 22, 2017 The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Goals for Sustainable Development are an ambitious commitment of the world comm... (2018)


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Secret History of Silicon Valley

[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private... (2018)


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Guns, Germs and Steel - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Sep 14, 2015 A summary of Jared Diamond's important arguments in Guns, Germs and Steel about why grow... (2018)


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How Israel became a leader in water use in the Middle East - PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour Published on Apr 26, 2015 Over the past few years in Israel, the country's water shortage has become a surplus. Through a combinat... (2018)


Podcast

How subsidies helped Montreal become "the Hollywood of video games" : Planet Money : NPR

For decades, Montreal has used generous tax subsidies to boost its video game industry. The policy has succeeded, but the city may need to keep the... (2022)


Podcast

Short On Workers, This Resort Town Has Stopped Marketing Itself To Tourists : NPR

A Colorado resort town reliant on summer visitors has halted tourism marketing because an affordable housing crisis means businesses don't have eno... (2021)


Podcast

Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change - Harvard Business Review (podcast)

Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)


Podcast

Costs of the Olympics | Council on Foreign Relations

Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the political and economic c... (2018)


Book

Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org

"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)


Book

Adventure Capitalist, by Jim Rogers

The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the G... (2025)


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Investment Biker, by Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling busines... (2025)


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Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide - Brad Feld

Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup communi... (2023)


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Development as Freedom - by Amartya Sen

Development as Freedom book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, a... (2020)


Book

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)


Book

Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan

Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)


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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)


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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)


Book

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein

" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)


Book

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin

"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)


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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)


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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu

"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)


Book

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)


Book

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)


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