Land Value Tax in Practice
There has been substantial interest in the potential of land value tax over the last few years. It is seen as a way to address the growing inequality in terms …
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Innovation, Sustainability and Trust
Creating a human society which is sustainable must rate as the biggest innovation challenge humanity has ever faced. We often think of this challenge as one of technological innovation, but …
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Victorian Values
Banks are scrabbling to find some trust. Robert Mochrie explains how they might look to the distant past. The nature of banking transactions demonstrates the need for trust between the …
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Out of the shadows
How did the central banks find themselves holding the torch that keeps the shadow banks in existence? Leon Wansleben throws some light. You are likely to read this piece at …
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When the losers become the leaders
David Fell recalls his youth and… hopes. It is 1978 and your correspondent is 13 years old. I have not yet heard of economics – I am, perhaps, a nascent …
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Long after the Brothers, it still looks grim
Where there’s a bail out there’s a way. Peter Manley takes a look back. The so-called brain drain is something of a long-established right of passage for young adults in …
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A triumph of finance over democracy
The rolling Back of Dodd-Frank and other tales of twists by Rick Rowden. In May 2018, the US watered down some of the major financial sector regulations it had adopted …
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Dearly departed
The Mint spoke to funeral director, Sarah Townsend, about the cost of dying, and the spectre of financial sector miss selling. And we exorcised some misleading myths. Funerals are emotionally …
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A change is as good as a rest
John Kay has embraced uncertainty and explains how we must do this to make economics relevant. Meanwhile little has changed he tells The Mint. With the Lehman Brothers collapse and the …
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Three Come Forth
A trio of leaders of organisations that have emerged as responses to the Crash talk to The Mint about the progress so far and the future outlook. Maeve Cohen, Fran …
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