Umair Haque:"Who'd judge my national awesomeness tournaments? Economists and venture guys (the good ones) would play a role. But more important would be open voting, so everyone's voice could be heard, and info efficiently aggregated."
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Umair Haque:"Today's media players aren't investing in better ads. They're investing in more — and more toxic — ads. Uh oh: it's the economic equivalent of the subprime crisis. The parallels, to me, are too striking to ignore."
Umair Haque:"Every day, you connect people, businesses, and communities in deeper and tighter ways than besuited beancounters do. From my tiny perspective, it seems that you just might be in the best position of any organization in the world to take on Finance 2.0."
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Umair Haque:"Economics needs fundamental reinvention — not trivialization. That's going to take a new era of geeking out, getting philosophical, and re-examining the basic assumptions on which econ is founded."
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Umair Haque:"What is common to both Apple and Google is growing mastery over utilizing markets, and sometimes networks, to dramatically rewire production and consumption, unlocking tremendous efficiency gains."
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Umair Haque:"Yesterday belonged to the destructive. Tomorrow belongs to the constructive. You spent a century defending Capitalism 1.0. But the world has changed radically — and capitalism is changing with it."
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Umair Haque:"Constructive Capitalists are disrupting their rivals by creating thicker value. Thick value is sustainable, meaningful value — and a new generation of radical innovators is wielding it like a strategic superweapon."
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