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Interviews - Audio
Brake the bank
The Coppola Column How governments could weaponise digital banking against...
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Blade runner 2021
Imaginary friends get real. Things are very exciting in our...
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Which way does digital point?
How did we end up here? Midwife to the Internet,...
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Environmentalism is a self-harming meme
Zero carbon in the foreseeable is as daft as it...
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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
Space exploration
Data on land is vital but largely unavailable to organisations in the social economy, says Kate Swade. The UK social...
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Lose change
There’s a digital revolution in money on the way. Barry James reports. A major new disruption to global monetary systems,...
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Cross or nought
The world’s challenges are multi-disciplinary. Research for their solutions needs to be the same, argues Keith Harrison-Broninski Shortly after my...
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Motherboard matters
Patricia Gestoso charts women’s battle for fair access to leadership positions in technology. I’ve now been working for over 15...
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Zoom: the bigger picture
Should out of office be permanently on and other post-lockdown questions? Nick Skelton explains why digital isn’t the only pointer...
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The realities of artificial intelligence
Tania Duarte explains why, in post-Brexit UK, the scrutiny of ethics in advanced tech cannot be left to companies or...
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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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