Ideas from where capital, policy and the real world meet.

Growth is usually drawn as a line on a chart. It does not live there. It lives in cities and forests, in ports and power grids, on factory floors and farms, along roads, rivers and irrigation channels. It is shaped by infrastructure, institutions, geography and time. And it remains stubbornly loyal to certain addresses.

Each issue of The Shape of Growth begins at one of them, a point on the map held long enough for the place to reveal the argument. The essays ask how prosperity is made, why it takes root in some places, why it slips away in others, and what will shape the next era of growth.