A Short History Of The Most Important Economic Theory In Tech

An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system Celebrating the best ideas in business This summer marked the 20th anniversary of one of the Harvard Business Review’s most influential articles ever, “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business,” by theoretical economist W. Brian Arthur, who was and remains a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. The summer of 1996 was a propitious moment for such an article to arrive. Netscape had gone public the previous summer, launching Internet 1.0, whose startups heartily embraced the idea. Even now, the theory of increasing returns is as important as ever: It’s at the

An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system Celebrating the best ideas in business This summer marked the 20th anniversary of one of the Harvard Business Review’s most influential articles ever, “Increasing Retur