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‘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 …
Levelling up – will it turn Britain into a more equal country? Read More
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 …
The Digital Economy: a Covid Winner but for whom? Read More
How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? The expected path of many is to go to university, forge …
Split: Class Divides Uncovered…. by Covid-19? Read More
Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen …
Sabotage and Covid-19 Read More
Elinor Ostrom at her 2009 Nobel lecture said: “Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better outcomes has been the major goal posited by policy analysts …
From Nudges to Catalysts: A New Approach to Policy for a New Decade Read More
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global …
A New Gold Standard or Impoverished Economics Read More
The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality, job creation in the face of automation, housing shortages and pressures …
Why Capitalists Need Communists Read More
We take it for granted that we get to vote in elections, but that is of course a relatively recent innovation. Universal suffrage only occurred in 1928. However most of …
Holding Corporations to Account: towards an Economic Democracy? Read More
One thing you can be certain of in what was billed as the most uncertain of elections, is that most candidates will be trying to convince you that their party …
Is Green Growth a Myth? Read More
Over the last 50 years, the community of heterodox economists has expanded, and its publications have proliferated. Heterodoxy was given a big boost after mainstream economics was discredited by the …
Is there a future for Heterodox Economics? Read More