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Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world’s biggest crisis?
Conventional economic logic hinges on a core assumption: Bigger economies are better, and finding ways to maintain or boost growth is paramount to improving society. But what if growth is at best doing little to fix the world’s problems, and at worst fostering the destruction of the planet and jeopardizing its future? That’s the radical message from the “degrowth”…
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Apple, JPMorgan Turn to Pay Now Grow Later
Consumer payments-focused startups Klarna Bank AB, Afterpay Ltd. and Affirm Holdings have a had a good run at changing how people shop and growing rapidly until recently. Now, much bigger players look like they’re gearing up to streamroll the little guys. Apple Inc. launched an installment-payments feature Monday among a string of product updates. It’s a prime example, along…