Follow the money
Self-styled comedian and economist, Susie Steed, tells how her guided walk around the City turned into a tour of the British Empire. I never set out to run a tour …
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Reactionary Democracy
From the publisher: Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What …
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People living on low incomes already see the economy as ‘rigged’ – so what next after coronavirus?
Ahead of the 2019 election, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives made moves to brand themselves as “post-austerity”. Big promises to rejuvenate neglected parts of the country won them votes in unexpected places. And …
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Degrowth in Movement(s)
From the publisher: Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen …
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Revenge Capitalism
From the publisher: Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of ‘ordinary’ structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless …
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Ten out of ten for five
As the new decade begins, The Mint asked a quintet of our 2019 #NotTheNobel Finalists to name their book of the past decade and to tell us why it wins …
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A rent-seeking bastard speaks
As isolation and social difference goes viral, it’s time to come together. As the state cavalry charges over the hill to save us all from the viral hordes could March …
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
From the publisher: From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America’s working class. Deaths of …
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Where the truth lies
Capitalism has brought us full circle to a place that looks a lot like where we stood just before the crash in 2007. Sameer Dossani says the way forward is …
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Growing pains
Can we save the planet and retain capitalism? Is transition to socialism the only way to end our addiction to unsustainable growth? Breakthroughs in economic theory may be suggesting a new …
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