The Coming Creativity Boom

The real source of all growth is human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, which often thrive in the worst of times--and are always surprising.

Forbes, November 6, 2008 — Knowledge is about the past; entrepreneurship is about the future. In a crisis the world of expertise pulls the global economy ever deeper into the past, where accountant-economists ruminate on the labyrinthine statistics of leviathan trade gaps, tides of debt and deficits, political bailouts and rebates, regulatory clamps and controls, all propping up the past in the name of progress.