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Life’s bare necessities are revealed in death to Professor Verity Bastion. Nowadays I attend more funerals than cocktail parties. They can be quite jolly affairs and it is remarkable what …
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Life’s bare necessities are revealed in death to Professor Verity Bastion. Nowadays I attend more funerals than cocktail parties. They can be quite jolly affairs and it is remarkable what …
Stripped back Read MoreColin Mayer CBE is an eminent Oxford University professor and fellow of the British Academy – the top club for social scientists. He believes that capitalism is in crisis and …
Moral bankruptcy Read MoreSeven years ago a group of students who were central to the revolt against mainstream economic teaching in universities, published a book, The Econocracy. This book criticised mainstream economics education …
Money talks Read MoreSo what has happened since we published our last issue in December 2020 on the power of the patriarchy? For a start, we are out of the pandemic, these issues …
Out of the way Read MoreStewart Lansley provides a measure of the task faced by any party that might genuinely seek to tackle poverty in the UK. Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour …
Is the opposition equal to the challenge? Read MoreDavid Stainforth is professor of physics with a deep passion for modelling the dimensions of the climate crisis in a form that is useful for decision makers and the wider …
The differential equation Read MoreJocelyn Olcott, a professor at Duke University, is an expert on feminist history and the history of feminist economics. So The Mint sought her take on where things stood. Are …
Tough take Read MoreAmy Schiller makes her living advising on how to do philanthropy well. And she has written a book suggesting the approach to most modern philanthropy is fundamentally misguided. The main …
The philanthropist’s stone Read MorePheko: I wasn’t actually sure what to expect, I must say. I thought it was going to be one of these quite academic, inward-looking type growth, post-growth, de-growth sorts of …
Beyond the pale? – interview transcript Read MoreThe Mint: Good afternoon, Helen, and thank you very much for giving some of your time to talk to The Mint Magazine. Helen Thompson: It’s a pleasure to be here, …
Killer watts – interview transcript Read More