Growing Megacities, Chinese Crypto & Data Barons

The World’s Fastest-Growing Megacities

The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development of over 10 million people) are located in Asia, based on a roundup of the latest population data released last month by Wendell Cox’s Demographia.
China, not surprisingly, has the most megacities of any country, four.

Chinese entrepreneurs have some creative responses to the government’s crackdown on crypto

Cryptocurrency is far from dead in China. In fact, the restrictive measures may have inadvertently triggered a wave of innovation that targets some of the problems faced by cryptocurrencies everywhere, not just in China.

It’s time to rein in the data barons

The history of technology has seen singularly powerful corporations before—think of IBM and its reign in mainframes, and Microsoft, the undisputed heavyweight in the PC era. What’s different this time is the enormous influence the big firms have over so many parts of daily life, and the troubling issues this raises.

How Employers in Poor Countries Are Using Nudges to Help Employees Save Money

According to World Bank figures, half of adults in high-income OECD countries save in a formal account; in developing economies, it’s only one in five. But we now have some evidence about how to scale nudges to help change this.

Companies Try Nudging Their Way to Better Ethics

Companies are trying to get employees to think about ethics when making business decisions, and are using nudges–a tool of behavioral ethics–to influence how they make choices