But the major developments of post-1950 economics are for the most part ignored.
Last week, having had time to dwell on the unhappy developments of June 24th and 25th, Volcker was somewhat more upbeat.
By that measure, here are five of the most important business developments of 2013, in no particular order.
Let's take a moment, then, to remember some of the most mildly interesting developments of 2014.
But one of the big developments of 2014 will be the growing peasants' revolt against the sovereigns of cyberspace.
But, notwithstanding the developments of last week, which mostly amount to inside baseball, the course of the Trump Presidency is set, and conservatives are still very much in charge.
It's a sound and reasonable question, but the developments of today's politics threaten jobs and climate, growth and the future, trade and equality.
In the field of physical anthropology, the key developments of 2010 included the publication of a draft sequence of approximately two-thirds of the Neanderthal nuclear genome.
Enterprise AR could be significant for both future developments of today's enterprise-focused smartglasses and mobile AR.
Indeed, Scientific American selected genome sequencing of fetuses as one of the world-changing developments of 2012 [ 40].
