Economic Freedom in the World After Capital, feat. Albert Wenger

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “World After Capital” is an evolving digital book project that looks at a set of megatrend shifts as the world moves between economic paradigms from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss: </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why attention is at the center of the new Knowledge Age</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why markets can’t price crucial needs such as pandemic preparedness</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the new era will be defined by three categories of freedoms: economic freedom, information freedom and psychological freedom</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why universal basic income has an important role to play in economic freedom</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How UBI could avoid political capture </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why technology is inherently deflationary </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why real estate, education and health care should be much cheaper than they are</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why community currencies could be a key innovation from the current crisis </span></li> </ul>