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Interviews - Audio
In black and white
I benefit from multiple privileges. White? Tick. Male? Tick. Posh?...
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Pot, porn and praise the Lord
People find new outlets when lockdown comes. I want to...
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Banking off road
Don’t consult the map while making a handbrake turn. What...
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Covid confusion: going viral
Frances Coppola shows where the truth lies. If there is...
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Youth is not enough
This issue Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji was going to talk to...
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Cooperatives on the table
Jessica Gordon-Nembhard is a leading economist studying co-operatives. In fact...
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Saving you the trouble
Felicia Wong and her team at the Roosevelt Institute in...
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Theoretically speaking
Randy Wray was one of the finalists for our #NotTheNobel...
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Past Events - Audio
Can there be a science based ‘exit strategy’?
UK Ministers are claiming that any ‘exit strategy’ from lock down will follow the science. However what science can they...
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Bring out the Best
Governments using regulators and other institutions to stick-and-carrot people into acting for the common good is not the way to...
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Zero is circular
A circular economy is starting to roll towards zero carbon in Ireland. Geraldine Brennan writes. Since the 1970s global resource...
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Why we should abandon GDP
Gross Domestic Product is the most popular and useless quantity in economics say Erald Kolasi and Blair Fix. For all...
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Hidden in plain sight
Alan Freeman interprets the art of deft manipulation of fact used in painting an unrealistically assuring, yet remarkably convincing picture...
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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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