Hedge. A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

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Introduction—......Page 9 From Europe With Love......Page 10 Part 1—The Ticking Clock......Page 13 Do middle class workers dream of tech companies?......Page 14 Big chances missed in the tech world......Page 17 The shifting balance of international power......Page 20 Modern history is a succession of paradigm shifts......Page 25 Different days, similar problems......Page 28 How we once built the Great Safety Net 1.0......Page 30 The Western middle class’s never-ending crisis......Page 35 How the Dark Ages shifted risks onto individuals......Page 38 Making the West Great Again......Page 41 Part 2—The Entrepreneurial Age......Page 45 A brief history of science and entrepreneurship......Page 46 From personal computing to continuous innovation......Page 48 Entrepreneurs are here to stay......Page 51 How customers rose as the main force in the corporate contract......Page 54 Production and consumption are increasingly blurred......Page 58 What’s a tech company, anyway?......Page 59 We’re all undergoing the ‘Wal-Mart Effect’......Page 63 Instability is the new normal......Page 65 Getting from Great to Greater......Page 72 Part 3—The Collapse of the Cathedrals......Page 77 Software is opening the world......Page 78 The thalassocracies......Page 80 A more open world calls for greater economic security......Page 83 The old working class has been left behind......Page 89 The new factory floor......Page 91 The problem with proximity services......Page 93 The state as the solution to many problems......Page 98 How bureaucracy reached the point of irrelevance......Page 99 Reviving the state......Page 102 Part 4—A Greater Safety Net......Page 106 Education is no longer the magic bullet......Page 107 Occupational licensing for amateurs......Page 108 Affordable housing for hunters and settlers......Page 110 A new breed of consumer finance......Page 117 Dealing a new hand in insurance......Page 120 We should all be taxed like Donald Trump......Page 123