The Catalyst Series

Where Business, Policy and Innovation Intersect To Create Prosperity

A monthly series by economist and author David S. Evans.

Prosperity doesn’t just happen. It results from people – in businesses, in government and by themselves – coming up with new ways to combine scarce resources or create new ideas from thin air. They are the catalysts for driving economic growth, often for the common good. They do this on a backdrop of dynamic markets, disruptive innovation and government policies, for better or worse.

The Catalyst Series, from economist and author David S. Evans, offers insights into how that works, or doesn’t work, and how to make it work better.

The Catalyst Series extends insights developed in his Catalyst Code: The Strategies of the World’s Most Dynamic Companies, co-authored with Richard Schmalensee, and Evans’ other work on starting, igniting and growing platform-based businesses.

Read Evans’ new series as it develops.

About the Author

David S. Evans is an economist who has published more than 10 books and 200 articles, many related to entrepreneurship, platforms, the digital economy and competition policy. He is chairman and co-founder of Market Platform Dynamics. He has taught at University College London and the University of Chicago Law School. For more details, see davidsevans.org.