A Fresh Start

Will we re-Start doing more or less the same as before or we Start Fresh reinventing our approach to economy? According to the Economist, COVID storm will accelerate three existing trends: the deglobalisation unpicking the business world that grew up in the 2000s; the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life; a consolidation of economic power into the hands of giant corporations—look likely to proceed at a faster rate than before, and perhaps to go further, too. Optimists—and business folk tend to look on the bright side—see this acceleration as offering new possibilities for reinvention, even resurrection.