“If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
John Maynard Keynes
Who knows what’s good for you?
Wendy Adamba works in Kenya to change behaviour to improve health and welfare outcomes. She works closely with communities to understand their perspectives and build trust. She tells The Mint
Central Eating
Pam Warhurst is an impressive community leader with a CBE for her efforts. She has been a council leader, chaired the Forestry Commission and has sat on other influential boards.
Mystically speaking
John Perkins was a self-confessed economic hit man. He had his damascene conversion in the rainforests of the Amazon in conversation with shamans. As a result he has written extensively
Mutual Understanding
Tony Greenham left the world of thinktanks and discussion on new economics in 2018 to get his hands dirty in doing it for real. He is now leading a project
Spin Offs
Tom Szaky started TerraCycle in high school to “end waste”. The company currently operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest retailers’ and manufacturers’ brands. In each
The Teller’s Tale
John Kay in an interview last year for The Mint, singled out Handelsbanken as a ray of hope in the banking world. According to Kay, it “had grown quite rapidly
What’s cooking in the capital?
Claire Pritchard has been the Chair of the Mayor of London’s Food Board since March 2018 and has worked for over 20 years with food-related social enterprises in Greenwich. She
A hole in the wall
Cesar Rodriquez is one of the so-called dreamers, whose future status in the US has become caught up in the current political drama. He was brought from Mexico to the
The hard way
The Mint talked to Professor Ozlem Onaran about her journey from an undergraduate degree in engineering to being a professor in economics at Greenwich University. She started her career in
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
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
The one and only
According to his website, Doctor Yoram Bauman is the world’s first and only stand-up economist. He tours the world entertaining not only economists but also bankers and lawyers. He has
Pointing the way to digital success
Khokhar: “It’s getting to read between the lines, or getting to understand the person, the business, and their motivations, and their rationale.” An entrepreneur for entrepreneurs – Bill Khokhar shows
A future secured
When Mohamed Omar fled the threats that came with the insurgency in Somalia, a lot came with him. The Mint heard his story. Mohamed Omar took a flight from his
Your word is your bond
Blott: “I didn’t choose glue so much as it chose me.” Tony Blott runs a glue supply company having directed an NHS trust. He sees little difference in many ways
From the mouth of death
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