Interviews
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Indian Summary
Surbhi Kesar is a young, Indian, pluralist economist, who has been researching the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable Indians. The report she has contributed made the newspaper headlines in India. …
Columns
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Defunding the past
The time has come to pucker up and give Trump a kiss. Our collective sanity is being assailed by an unrelenting locust-swarm media and the groaning end of a socioeconomic …
Here & Now
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Digital division: pointing the finger
Kira Allmann counts the cost of exclusion from the web that is woven into lives worldwide. On a blustery, overcast afternoon eight years ago, volunteers for (B4RN, pronounced “barn”) gathered …
Horizon
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Democratically digital
Internet access has been a lifeline during the Covid pandemic. Miriam Brett argues it is too important to remain in the hands of private sector interests. An invisible lifeform has …
Hard stuff
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Why we should abandon GDP
Gross Domestic Product is the most popular and useless quantity in economics say Erald Kolasi and Blair Fix. For all that it purports to say, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails …
News
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WEF: Pandemic accelerates dramatic pace of change in global jobs
The ‘future of work’ was already a major topic before the pandemic, with automation and technology rapidly changing the jobs market. That pace of change is now rising fast, according …
Past Events
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The Digital Economy: a Covid Winner but for whom?
During lockdown, the digital economy has been essential and has boomed. But are private network monopolies in the public interest? The early 1900s saw the first attempt to challenge the …
Long Reads
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Taking sides
Nicholas Gruen questions the value of competition and proposes a new frontier for political and economic reform. Since Adam Smith, economists have marvelled at competition’s capacity to improve our world …
