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This extract from Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood explores a tragic effect of information asymmetry. Malaria. Its epithet: the “unsurpassed scourge of humankind” is well …
Murderous mimicry Read More
Willy Diddens on why philanthropists think they have to evade tax. Call it branding, public perception, corporate image or optics, ultimately the great majority of people, businesses, governments spend a …
Money talks Read More
How we became prize fighters. Henry Leveson-Gower recounts. I was going through my mail (the paper stuff) some months ago when I was a little shocked to open a letter …
Nobbled in a noble cause Read More
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 …
All things being unequal Read More
It’s time for the bosses to stop posing as helpers of disadvantaged groups and to just get out of their way. Patricia Gestoso offers directions. In 2013, the then chief …
The great pretenders Read More
The world’s second largest economy may have reached its zenith, says Richard Vague. China failed to deliver anything close to its historically-robust growth in the September 2022 quarter, with 3.9% …
Broken China Read More
Britain has long been a high poverty, high inequality nation. It’s time to change that, says Stewart Lansley. One of the most important political questions of the time is whether …
Malignant growth Read More
Caroline Knowles takes a look at the life of the modern-day Jeeves. The World Wealth Report (2021) reveals that the UK’s High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) – those with more …
Seen but never heard Read More
How could mutual respect rein in Covid deaths? Irene van Staveren offers an explanation. Why were the Covid-19 death rates in populist countries such as the US, Brazil and India, …
Did social closeness beat Covid? Read More
“Equality makes for good environmental policymaking” says Katy Wiese Ahead of COP27 in November, more than 40.000 people went to the streets in Brussels to put pressure on policymakers to …
Why we should all be ecofeminists Read More