Our house
In 1985 London’s Victoria and Albert Museum put on an exhibition entitled National characteristics of design. It looked at various aspects of manufacturing, fashion and other sectors in eight leading …
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Symptoms of growth addiction: bad housing, bad health and Donald Trump?
In this issue we focus on the economics of two issues that have dominated our politics for decades: health and housing. The health of the NHS is maybe our …
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Street Fighter
Laura McCullagh works with people who are in danger of homelessness. She tells The Mint how her clients’ difficulties begin with lack of money and how she tries to guide …
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Gamekeeper turned Revolutionary
Angus Armstrong is now leading a centre charged with the task of restoring the relevance of macroeconomics following its failure to see the possibility of the 2008 crash. And he …
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Growing pains
Tim Jackson gained his global reputation outside academia with his groundbreaking book Prosperity without Growth, originally published in 2009 as a report from the Sustainable Development Commission for the UK government. In it he …
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The Good, Band and Ugly of Taxation
The Panama papers may have outed a rogue company but even the Queen was caught up in the Paradise papers. But we are told that it was all legal. Is …
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Post Brexit, What should our approach to trade be?
As the UK launches into negotiating free trade deals with anyone who will have us and Joe Stiglitz tells not to ‘waste our time’ negotiating with Trump, what should our …
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The next energy revolution: Glorious or bumpy? Winners or losers?
The future green energy revolution is often pictured as a glorious combination of economic growth, employment and a solution to climate change. However the signs look more ominous. Oil companies, …
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The number of people in the world is set to grow to more than nine billion by 2050. Joss Tantram asks what kind of world do we want for them. …
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Independence for Andalusia
Can British farmers learn from their counterparts in southern Spain to spit out Brussels’ poisoned sweets? Joe Zammit-Lucia and Astrid Vargas write. The high plains of Andalusia in southern Spain …
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