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Blueprint to Building the New Economy

Blueprint to Building the New Economy How can we make our financial system less fragile and more transparent? How can we make our healthcare infrastructure less reactive and more agile? And what can we do to create more robust civic institutions that work for all of us—not just those at the top? A new book from researchers at the  MIT Sloan School of Management  provides answers and insights to those pressing questions. The book,  Building the New Economy , is edited by Professor  Alex "Sandy" Pentland , leader within the Sloan Initiative for Digital Economy and founder of the  MIT -wide Connection Science program,  Alexander Lipton , former Managing Director of Quantitative Solutions at Bank of America and Connection Science Fellow at  MIT , and  Thomas Hardjono , CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium. "With each new crisis, be it war, pandemic, natural disaster, or even the invention of a major technology, there