Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Crowded out: corporate giants are cramping developing nations’ sovereign styles. Rick Rowden looks at the impact of corporate moves to homogenise global trading and investment agreements and how developing countries …
The Case for Policy Space Read More
Professor Verity Bastion seeks to steady the ship in these turbulent times with some common sense. There is something about Theresa May that reminds me of the Maid of Lorraine. …
Verity Read More
A greater role in the economy for the many can be more than fine words says Stewart Lansley. In the UK the Prime minister, Theresa May has repeatedly pledged to …
The people’s stake: a new way to tackle inequality Read More
How handing out titles to the poor can make the rich richer. By Howard Stein, Ann Arbor, Faustin Maganga, Rie Odgaard and Kelly Askew. There was a time when …
Land reform and dispossession in Africa Read More
Is nothing better than industrial strategy? Former business secretary, Sir Vince Cable, charts the course of UK policy from backing no one to promoting potential. Speaking the day after prime …
A strategic view Read More
In the first of a series of pieces on people and their relationship with work we look at the trajectory taken by Jena Al-Bazi from her birthplace in Iraq …
From the mouth of death Read More
Limiting your options to the established school of thought is a false economy. Ha Joon Chang explains how more is more when it comes to shaping economic policy. Thanks in …
Pluralism: walk these ways Read More
Greece is a beautiful place in a terrible economic mess. Does that make it a land of opportunity or have its people been forced over a cliff edge by the …
Greece: a crisis wrapped in a calamity inside a tragedy Read More
Why ker-ching! has become bleep! in China’s cities. Joshua Howey discovers the future for buying a sandwich in the street. As I stepped off the bus and onto the noisy …
Open sesame: the keypad to China’s treasures Read More
Water management in Costa Rica is crucial in maintaining the country’s valuable eco-tourism industry and vital cash crops. But it is struggling through an undergrowth of fragmented responsibilities and competing …
Costa Rica – a Dark Brew Read More