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Three Ways to Get Paid
A veteran financial journalist recalls what his father taught him about work and money, in a short and warm essay about…
Tindall On Software Delays
An essay on how Apollo program manager Bill Tindall handled software schedule delays with blunt, practical memos, and wh…
U.S. Stock Market Returns: 1870s to Present
A data-rich reference page covering U.S. stock returns since 1871, with annual returns, odds of losing money, best and w…
UC Berkeley Labor Center
A research center publishing accessible studies and data on wages, unions, and working conditions in the American labor…
UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Reports
Free annual reports and data from the United Nations trade body analyzing the economic challenges facing the world's lea…
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
An illustrated explainer on India's UPI payment network, tracing how the seven parties behind a single tap-to-pay transa…
Urban Land Magazine
The Urban Land Institute's publication on real estate development and city building, covering housing, infrastructure, a…
Visualizing Risk
A scrollytelling article using a pension savings calculation and Monte Carlo simulation to show how risk and uncertainty…
VoxDev
A research-to-policy platform where development economists summarize their findings in short, readable articles aimed at…
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
A research organization funding and publishing academic work on how economic inequality affects growth, with plain-langu…
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What Do People Do All Day?
A witty close reading of Richard Scarry's Busytown that unpacks the economics, labor and politics of the children's clas…
What Do Visa and Mastercard Do?
A clear introduction to how card networks work, who pays whom when you tap a card, and why interchange fees exist, writt…
What's Noka Worth?
A legendary piece of food investigation that dissects a luxury chocolate brand selling at hundreds of dollars a pound an…
Where $3 Trillion Actually Goes
A data analysis of 4 million IRS 990 filings mapping where US nonprofit revenue flows, and how little financial disclosu…
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Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap
A veteran indie game developer explains with humor and hard numbers why his studio's games look dated, and why that is a…
Why Bell Labs Worked
An essay on how Bell Labs produced the transistor, information theory and Unix, and how management culture and funding c…
Why Cities Must Build Administrative Capacity
An essay arguing that cities spend too much money and time on basic projects, and that investing in administrative capac…
Why Do Everyone's Logo Fonts Look the Same?
A look at how clean sans-serif typefaces took over brand logos, tracing the design trends, screens and business pressure…
Why Everyone Hates the Electronic Medical Record
A long read tracing how medical records turned from a clinician's notebook into billing-driven software, and why doctors…
Why Jet Engines Aren't Made in China
A deep explainer on why China still struggles to build top jet engines, and what the metallurgy, tooling and decades of…
Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
A former Sony engineer explains the supply chain, tooling and parts problems that make reviving the classic cassette Wal…
Why Your Music Is Worthless
A long essay by musician Simon Indelicate on the economics of music when recordings are worth zero, and how cult indie a…
Works in Progress
A magazine of deeply researched, optimistic essays on economic growth, technology, and progress, illustrated with origin…
World Bank Blogs
Development economists and researchers share findings on poverty, infrastructure, and growth in short posts illustrated…
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