The coarse in economics
Tom Bergin is an award-winning, financial journalist of long standing. He tends to specialise in the seamier side of corporate behaviour, his previous book being on the BP Horizon disaster. …
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From Russia with luck
A tale of corruption and corridors. The Mint hears how Alena Ledeneva looks for favours. During the final days of the Soviet Union in 1990, a young sociology student in …
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The growing realisation
Tim Jackson has just published a new book, Post Growth – Life After Capitalism, examining our disastrous obsession with growth in a finite world and how we might escape it. …
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After the bull’s left the shop
Six months ago we talked to German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, about the future of China and geo-political economics. He had just published a book, The Chinese …
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Intensive Care
Over five years, Madeleine Bunting travelled the country, speaking to charity workers, doctors, social workers, in-home carers, nurses, palliative care teams and parents, to explore the value of care. Out …
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Pioneering spirit
Steve Keen, bête noir of neo-classical economists and author of Debunking Economics, has just published an article in which he sets out a new approach to macro-economic modelling he has …
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Indian Summary
Surbhi Kesar is a young, Indian, pluralist economist, who has been researching the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable Indians. The report she has contributed made the newspaper headlines in India. …
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The Clout of Africa
The Mint caught up again with US-based, Kenyan economist, Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, on how Africa is coping with the pandemic and what that might mean in the long term with …
Read More Interview: Wolfram Elsner – Chinese walls are invisible – Transcript
The Mint: Good evening, Wolfram, and thank you very much for joining us and speaking to The Mint this evening. Wolfram Elsner: Good evening, Henry. The Mint: I’d love to …
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Interview: Wolfram Elsner – Chinese walls are invisible
German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, has just published a book, The Chinese Century after researching and teaching in China for almost a decade. When he started out, he …
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