We call that operating system elastic to signal the way that it breaks with the scale economics of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Furthermore, Wilson, the only president with a doctorate, tried to use the newly created Federal Reserve system and an elastic money supply to keep inflation in check, but the U.S. still saw double-digit inflation from 1917 to 1920.

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What Nick Vitalari and I described in The Elastic Enterprise is a new wealth creation system.

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They need to market it and learn to set elastic pricing and woo clients and negotiate with vendors and handle the tax system.

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