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Interviews - Audio
From bank vaults to the crypt
The Coppola column Crypto currencies are dead. Long live the...
Read MoreMore or less equal?
My first real consciousness of the super-rich happened as a...
Read MoreOut of pocket rocket
A tale of the downfall of another powerful predatory male...
Read MoreGrowth… a tale of make believe
Where is the fairy dust when you need it? Frances...
Read MoreIndian Summary
Surbhi Kesar is a young, Indian, pluralist economist, who has...
Read MoreThe Clout of Africa
The Mint caught up again with US-based, Kenyan economist, Mwangi...
Read MoreChinese walls are invisible
German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, has just...
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Past Events - Audio
Some are more equal than others
There’s more to extreme wealth than first appears. Mark Thomas points it out. We are all used to inequality. There...
Read MoreAll things being unequal
Sarah McKinley describes a structural reset to democratise our economies. The results of the recent midterm elections in the US...
Read MoreMalignant growth
Britain has long been a high poverty, high inequality nation. It’s time to change that, says Stewart Lansley. One of...
Read MoreSeen but never heard
Caroline Knowles takes a look at the life of the modern-day Jeeves. The World Wealth Report (2021) reveals that the...
Read MoreThe great pretenders
It’s time for the bosses to stop posing as helpers of disadvantaged groups and to just get out of their...
Read MoreDid social closeness beat Covid?
How could mutual respect rein in Covid deaths? Irene van Staveren offers an explanation. Why were the Covid-19 death rates...
Read MoreLevelling up – will it turn Britain into a more equal country?
‘Levelling up’ is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become a...
Read MoreThe 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?...
Read MoreSplit: 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...
Read MoreSabotage and Covid-19
Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a...
Read MoreFrom 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...
Read MoreA 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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