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Anti matters
Tony Myatt is a professor of economics in Canada and author, with Rod Hill, of the Economics Anti-Textbook in 2010. He has recently published the Macro Economics Anti-Textbook. The Mint …
Columns
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From bank vaults to the crypt
The Coppola column Crypto currencies are dead. Long live the crypto currency? The crypto industry has had a terrible year. The prices of cryptocurrencies have crashed and major crypto companies …
Here & Now
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Some are more equal than others
There’s more to extreme wealth than first appears. Mark Thomas points it out. We are all used to inequality. There is inequality of height, weight, shoe size and just about …
Horizon
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All things being unequal
Sarah McKinley describes a structural reset to democratise our economies. The results of the recent midterm elections in the US were less polarised than anticipated and the threatened Republican Red …
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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Environment plan for England asks farmers to restore nature – but changes are likely to be superficial
The UK government’s environment improvement plan pledges to restore 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of wildlife-rich habitat, create or expand 25 national parks, invest in the recovery of hedgehogs and …
Past Events
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Levelling up – will it turn Britain into a more equal country?
‘Levelling up’ is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become a White Paper, which opens with the following words: “Levelling …
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 …
