The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.