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At the flip of a billion coins
Can finance provide what humanity needs? As we approach 1.5ºC average warming, nature collapses, and conflicts escalate, this must be a reasonable question. Or is it naïve as finance is
Prison food
Thieves and vagabonds with hellfire and damnation: would you like fries with that? The world is becoming increasingly topsy-turvy. The economic policy agenda now includes industrial policy, trade restrictions, and
Interviews
A solid case
In her recently published book, Tehila Sasson, a modern historian, investigates the origins and impacts of the ideas and implementation of the ‘solidarity economy’. In it, she provides a fascinating
Might clubbing
Gerald Epstein is an unusual academic; he is also a Bankers’ Club Buster, by which he means someone who is part of the US movement to bust up the power
All together now
Bernie Mullin is a working-class Liverpudlian who made (very) good in the US of A. While avowedly non-political, he has decided that he owes it to his adopted country to
Articles
Artificially safe or really sorry
Bronwyn Howell asks: where artificial intelligence is as capricious as humans, how do you make rules that govern its risk? The 2023 USA Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and
Time for a switch
Ellie Standen explains how levies break, dividends divide and it’s time to take back the power industry into the public sector. Keir Starmer’s Labour Government has promised great things in
Delivering Despite the Rules
Mark E Thomas and Vince Gomez argue that if Labour sticks too literally to its Fiscal Rules, it will fail to deliver, so creative thinking is needed. When he became
All round sound investments
Investment droughts in energy generate conflict and misery in the Global South and fuel a flood of migration while impairing bids for sustainability. Prashant Vaze calls on advanced economies to
Don’t take the right turn
Katy Wiese calls for economic transformation in the European Union to avoid a swerve in the wrong direction. In this year’s European Union (EU) elections, far-right parties made gains across
Local lucre, little interest
Why did a bid in Bristol to create a city currency fold? Diana Finch tells the tale. When the Bristol Pound came onto the scene, it commanded worldwide attention. It
Don’t bank on size
Credit unions are huge in Canada. Guy Dauncey explains why the UK government might look to the world’s second-largest country to guide its bid for a more cooperative economy. 2022