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Interviews - Audio
Hip to the beat
Pride after a fall. I am recuperating at home under...
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Ongoing, massive Ttrump
Maybe Trump TV will troll Biden nightly and present...
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The Mint is listening to… Sophie Adamson 21, Third Year Economics and Philosophy
Before coming to university, I wanted to study a degree...
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Someone’s got to do it
It seems that actually only fools, horses and men work....
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Indian Summary
Surbhi Kesar is a young, Indian, pluralist economist, who has...
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The Clout of Africa
The Mint caught up again with US-based, Kenyan economist, Mwangi...
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Interview: Wolfram Elsner – Chinese walls are invisible
German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, has just...
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Interview: Steve Keen – Why not?
Steve Keen is currently viewing the world from Thailand, which...
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Past Events - Audio
The love of money
What is the going rate for being a mum? Madhavi Venkatesan suggests it’s time to stop following the money. The...
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Colonial economics
Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is...
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Three forgotten lessons about the circular economy
A circular economy requires a more holistic view of the economy (image by Tony Biddle 2020). Emma Fromberg retrieves some...
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Selling the circular
Thinking out of the box: currently, retail is largely about mass, transactional relationships. Can business ever be good? Henry Leveson-Gower...
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Period pain
The return on investment in menstrual hygiene awareness in India is huge. The cost of allowing period taboos to persist...
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The weight of numbers
Indian society’s fixation on high scores above all else in education is damaging children’s mental health, according to Festival for...
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The Digital Economy: a Covid Winner but for whom?
During lockdown, the digital economy has been essential and has boomed. But are private network monopolies in the public interest?...
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Split: Class Divides Uncovered…. by Covid-19?
How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? The...
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Sabotage and Covid-19
Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a...
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From Nudges to Catalysts: A New Approach to Policy for a New Decade
Elinor Ostrom at her 2009 Nobel lecture said: “Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better...
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A New Gold Standard or Impoverished Economics
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo...
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Why Capitalists Need Communists
The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality,...
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