100 Entrepreneurs Who Changed The World

Bitcoin and other crypto currencies exploded into the world this year. As the value of bitcoin soared, optimists declared we were seeing the beginning of a new world. Realists warned us, however, that it was a bubble, that Bitcoin had no real value. It appears, for now, those skeptics were right, as Bitcoin is currently…

Photo by Pimthida 10. Kindle E-books Publishing books has never been easier thanks to Amazon Kindle, which has opened up a new window not only for writers but also those willing to pay others to create works that they can sell. Most of the money to be made here by those who aren’t looking to…

Photo by Duncan Rawlinson – @thelastminute – Duncan.co The wider revolution in crypto-currency, however, does share an important similarity with Hayek’s vision in that it’s a field wide open to competition. The proliferation of alt-coins (digitial Bitcoin alternatives) underscores just how easy it is to enter the fray. But what if cryptocurrencies are just the…

Outsourcing — sending manufacturing or services work abroad where it can be done more cheaply — can be a tough sell in the best of times. It’s even more of a challenge when jobs in the U.S. are already hard to find, making it painful to think of precious jobs being shipped overseas. If only…

At the beginning of the Cold War, George Kennan introduced the idea of “containing” an unfriendly state as part of  his work on U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. Later the idea of containment was implemented in part through the use of economic sanctions. It was based on two assumptions: For both ideological and geopolitical…