https://thomasblood.com/tags/economics/Recent content in Economics on Cloud/AI Transformation & Enterprise StrategyHugoen-usThu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-12-the-default-is-contribution-part-3-the-question-of-time/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-12-the-default-is-contribution-part-3-the-question-of-time/This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1: The Forgotten Book established that moral responsibility is the foundation, not the add-on. Part 2: The Reset explored what changes when contribution becomes architecture. There is a prediction that haunts the AI debate, though most people making the debate have never read it. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes published a short essay called Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. In it, he made a startling claim: within a hundred years — by 2030 — the economic problem would be solved.https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-08-the-default-is-contribution-part-2-the-reset/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-08-the-default-is-contribution-part-2-the-reset/This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1: The Forgotten Book established that moral responsibility is the foundation, not the add-on. Part 3: The Question of Time asks what we do with the hours machines give back. In Part 1, I argued that “Tech for Good” is a philosophical error — that Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments established contribution as the default, not a department. The impartial spectator cannot be outsourced.https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-06-the-default-is-contribution-part-1-the-forgotten-book/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100https://thomasblood.com/blog/2026-03-06-the-default-is-contribution-part-1-the-forgotten-book/This is Part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2: The Reset explores what changes when contribution becomes architecture. Part 3: The Question of Time asks what we do with the hours machines give back. There is a phrase that has always bothered me: “Tech for Good.” It sounds noble. It appears on conference agendas and in corporate mission statements, usually next to a photograph of someone holding a tablet in a field.