Grand Redesign
June 21, 2021
West Germany and Japan endured widespread devastation during World War II. Yet, in the years after the war, both countries experienced miraculous economic growth that sustained over decades and shaped their new position in the world. In his book “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” Mancur Olson writes that both countries drove exponential growth primarily because their old ideologies and beliefs had been disrupted. That disruption opened space for something fresh and new. The pandemic has been a force of disruption. There has been disruption outside and inside. We have been forced to reevaluate aspects of our lives, work, relationships… As we sketch the