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These are the best new articles, videos, podcasts, and other resources we have found to teach the concept of creative destruction. They bring economics to life by showing students real-life examples and current events.
 

News Articles

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After three decades of pretty constant growth, the consultancy boom just hit an AI-shaped wall | Sherwood News (Dec. 3, 2025)
AI is coming for consulting. Services that once demanded premium rates can be performed by AI, resulting in a plateau for the industry.

Spirit Halloween bets on struggling real estate to fuel its growing business. Here's how (Article and Video) | CNBC (Oct. 23, 2025)
Spirit Halloween has built an empire from retail’s graveyard. Each fall, the pop-up chain swoops into the empty shells of bankrupt stores like Sears and Bed Bath & Beyond, turning retail failure into a $1.8 billion success story. It’s creative destruction at its spookiest — proof that when old businesses die, new ones can rise from the ashes (or cobwebs).

AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business | CNN (Aug. 11, 2025)
The whirring, squeaking beeps of dial-up internet are coming to an end. Dial-up has long been displaced by faster, more reliable internet connections, leaving AOL stuck in the past.

Kodak warns its business is in "substantial doubt" after 133 years | CBS News (Aug. 12, 2025)
Kodak, the camera company that brought photography to the masses, has signaled its 133 year run may be coming to a close. After missing the pivot to digital photography, the company emerged from bankruptcy with eyes on commercial and packaging printing as well as pharmaceuticals, but it looks like too little too late.

Ford throws out Henry Ford's assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America | TechCrunch (Aug. 11, 2025)
Ford is revamping the assembly line as it looks to speed up EV production and lower costs. Can the new assembly tree reinvigorate Ford as much as its predecessor?

Spirit Airlines Admits It Might Not Survive Another Year | Gizmodo (Aug. 12, 2025)
After a failed merger with JetBlue and a bankruptcy filing only 5 months ago, Spirit is sounding the alarm that it may dissolve within the next year unless it acquires enough liquidity to manage its debts and weather adverse market conditions, namely lower consumer demand for domestic travel.

Skype signs off: How Microsoft's video platform went wrong as others zoomed by | Quartz (Feb. 28, 2025)
Creative destruction strikes again! The app so synonymous with wifi video calls it became a verb is shutting down.

RIP Party City: Dollar Tree and Five Below are looking to scoop up the doomed retailer's stores | Fast Company (Feb. 24, 2025)
As yet another more traditional brick and mortar retailer closes, some low-cost chains are swooping in. Resources are getting reallocated to more highly valued use cases.

Forever 21 is in talks with liquidators, indicating it's struggling to find a buyer |  CNBC (Feb. 19, 2025)
Fast fashion’s dominant player of the early 2000s and 2010s is contemplating liquidation–the latest example of creative destruction. Its recent partnership with Shein has not been enough to grow sales, and the retailer continues to struggle to contain its costs.

Videos

Creative Destruction: Technology and Trade | Marginal Revolution University
Follow Kodak and Polaroid to see how creative destruction reshapes markets. Discover how innovation creates new products and firms while pushing others to adapt or exit, and weigh short-run job losses against long-run consumer gains.
 

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