In Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller introduces the book by referencing back to Robert Bellah’s Habits of the Heart, starting with a passage on the perils of individualism at the expense of all else: “We are moving to an ever greater validation of the sacredness of the individual person, [but] our capacity to imagine a social fabric that […]
What the Boston Tea Party Tells Us About the Importance of Autonomy at Work
In 1772, all tea from the East India Trading Company was required to be delivered to the United Kingdom and sold to traders through the London Tea Auction. Those traders would buy tea at auction and pay an import tax to be able to sell it in the American colonies. The traders would add a […]
Scarcity and the Relative Value of Beer (And what it means for your business)
Economic theory tells us a beer is a beer and it should be worth the same to you, regardless of your context. And yet, when researchers asked two simple questions1 in a recent experiment, they found evidence that economic theory simply doesn’t hold when we are resource rich rather than resource poor. Imagine you’re a […]