Tag: John Maynard Keynes
Eine Wirtschaftslektion von Tolstoi
Im Jahr 1886 veröffentlichte Leo Tolstoi eine Kurzgeschichte mit dem Titel „Wie viel Land braucht ein Mann?“ Sein Protagonist, ein armer Bauer namens Pahóm, träumt davon, Landbesitzer zu werden. Er denkt: „Wenn ich viel Land hätte, müsste ich den Teufel selbst nicht fürchten!“ Der Teufel hört zu und beschließt, eine Reihe von Ereignissen zu inszenieren. Pahóm leiht sich Geld, um mehr Land zu kaufen. Er züchtet Vieh und baut Mais an und wird wohlhabend. Er verkauft sein Land mit Gewinn
The Next Crisis Will Start With Empty Office Buildings
“I’m about to cancel all my Zoom meetings.” It was May 2021, and Jamie Dimon had had enough. The JPMorgan Chase CEO expected that “sometime in September, October,” the company’s office would “look just like it did before.” Two years later, his company is slashing its Manhattan footprint by a fifth.
Post-pandemic, kids are back in school, retirees are back on cruise ships, and physical stores are doing better than expected. But offices are struggling perhaps more than most casual
When Freud Put Woodrow Wilson on the Couch
Sigmund Freud had a rule. However irresistible the temptation to burrow into the inner life of kings, prime ministers, and tycoons, he wouldn’t analyze famous contemporaries from afar. It just wasn’t right to rummage around in the mind of a subject who didn’t consent to the practice. But in the end, he found one leader so fascinating and so maddening that his ethical qualms apparently melted away.
From the distance of the present, it’s almost impossible to imagine that