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Interviews - Audio
What is corruption?
After all, it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds...
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Double parked
Two cars yet nowhere to go. But how did she...
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Biden: his time
The US is lusty and demanding for the future. But...
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What’s love got to do with it?
Broken trust has to be fixed. Frances Coppola explains why...
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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 circular economy transition is a multi-million opportunity for Africa – here’s why
COVID-19 shrank economies around the world. However, the crisis presents a unique opportunity for many to rebuild green and potentially...
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Men, Women See Different Job Listings on Facebook Due to Algorithm Bias, Research Shows
Facebook’s algorithm targets people for job listings based on their gender identity, new research has found. The study revealed that Facebook ads...
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Out of our heads
Lindsey Hall tells of the ideas behind Real Ideas. Since we founded Real Ideas fourteen years ago, we have worked...
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Sovereign states on a leash
Foreign investment: Rick Rowden recounts the tale of who’s wagging the dog. When Mexico adopted a tax on high-fructose...
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The pathology of economics
Covid-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa. Howard Stein. On 24 February 2021 Ghana received a vaccine...
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Money for nothing and other Newtonian repercussions
Georgian lessons on the modern economy by Simon Sherratt. In March 1819, William Cobbett – an inveterate critic of the...
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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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