Columns
Interviews - Audio
Trump’s card – what’s up the global sleeve?
The president has a plan to make the world pay...
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Viennese faults
The good professor sings Chicago and thinks it’s time to...
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Days of future passed
Currently, everyday events are unfolding that are likely to play...
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Merry morality
It is that time of year. We are not a...
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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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Chinese walls are invisible
German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, has just...
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Articles
Past Events - Audio
Sustainable AI
Patricia Gestoso asks whether we can balance innovation and environmental responsibility In 2021, van Wynsberghe proposed defining sustainable artificial intelligence...
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Warning – explicit language
Donnie Maclurcan offers a guide to philanthropic organisations on how they might improve their game in today’s world where growth...
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From morality to merchandise
Adam Smith’s life and intellectual journey from BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time with the help of Gemini. The 18th-century...
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How Napoleon’s loss gave one poor stockbroker an advantage
The tale of groundbreaking economist, David Ricardo, from BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time using Gemini. David Ricardo, a name...
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Same as the old boss
In November 2020, Zambia defaulted on its international debt, the first African country to do so since the start of...
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Can America be Progressive Again?
Alan Freeman asks why the US fears being progressive when its economic power was built by progressive policies. Imagine this:...
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Levelling 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...
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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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