Barnstorming Success
Time for a cuppa: but no copper to be seen. A north Lancashire community has built a hyper-fast broadband network with a shovel and a nice cup of tea. Life …
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Don’t even think about it
We live in a time of perpetual ersatz crises. Discuss in 280 characters. As gamers in the fourth industrial revolution we’re always on the cusp of crisis. You know, the …
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Caring and Sharing
Interview: Juliet Schor Since 2010 Juliet Schor has been studying the recent phenomenon that is the sharing economy. She first rose to prominence in the 1990s with her bestselling book …
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Basic Instincts
The value of a human life becomes clear. At last my old colleague, Felix Price, deigned to visit me last week after almost two years of retirement. I have to …
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By rewriting our past, we can rewrite our future
Guy Dauncey looks back to see a way forward. Once upon a time, there was a revolution. I have never read about it in any history book, yet it was …
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Whatever works for you?
Earning a crust or getting a rise: there’s more to work than making bread. Why do you do what you don’t want to do? Angela Dennis thinks we should take …
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The gig economy: when cool goes cold and hard
It is not just 18-20s who are playing under the uncertain contracts of the gig economy. Peter Manley shares the economic realities of gigging into your 50s. The gig economy …
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The human touch
There is a world of innovation and entrepreneurism where the bottom line is the last thing that matters. René Kemp tells. We live in a world of marketisation with its …
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Work: a situation vacant
Job’s worth: being cost effective in producing and consuming ever more things. We need a new defining idea for political economy, writes Richard Douglas. During Cheltenham Gold Cup week I …
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If the talk of a move from a shareholder economy to a stakeholder economy is to be more than just lip service, businesses need to engage meaningfully with a range …
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