Entrepreneurs transform the global economy. Heres the cover the book. Professor, what role does fear play in Economic Development . Guest well, thats a great question, and maybe ill talk about what role does fear play in our conversations about development, conversation about our presence so when we talk about our reality and share our ideas in a marketplacek competing with other ideas, and we know three things about marketplaces for ideas. Short term sells better than long term. Fear sells better than hope. Negative sells better than positive that is to say, and exaggerated sells better than moderated. We see a disproportioned number of short term narratives of negative e exaggerated stories essentially. Short term, negative, exage exaggerated. Were cree chars that grew up in environments where we were always subject to threats. Were no longer in those environments. Were in a complex economy thats interdependent, that that really relies on organizations to provide us with our necessit