It isn’t very often that a single action can dramatically affect the lives of 1.3 billion people significantly, virtually overnight. On November 8th, the Government of India announced the demonetization of 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes. As they together constitute more than 86% of the total value of all notes in circulation, the decision had profound read more...
The rapid advances in technology have been reshaping the ‘marketplace’. Normally described as the evolution of the market, in many ways, it is actually a “return-to-the-past”, in that technology is enabling markets to operate as they did previously - removing intermediaries and putting economic actors in direct contact with one another once again. One read more...
Human history has been marked by periods where improved methods, processes and technologies have resulted in tremendous changes. The industrial revolution included shifting from hand production to machine based production, improvements in power use and an increasing use of standards-based approaches rather than bespoke, craft-based approaches. Virtually read more...
