Part of our commitment in A/UK is be involved in “networking the networks” – making many connections with like-minded groups and individuals, either convening ourselves or strengthening the convening of …
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From publisher Palgrave’s website: Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change – and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At …
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There is a shift underway. Last year, both plastic waste and oceans broke through as iconic environmental issues. There is a growing movement in the US around the Sunrise Movement, …
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Over the past few decades, outsourcing has increasingly defined the public sector’s relationship to workers, and has played a major part in widening the gap between the richest and the …
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Two Fellows of the British Academy are touring the country to make the case for a radical overhaul of business. Sir Paul Collier and Colin Mayer argue that we must …
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This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy …
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America’s new “philanthrocapitalists” are enabling social problems rather than solving them. A new breed of wealthy do-gooders armed with apps and PowerPoints claim they want to change the world. But …
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Laura McCullagh works with people who are in danger of homelessness. She tells The Mint how her clients’ difficulties begin with lack of money and how she tries to guide …
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What does a cocaine baron have to offer society? Self-confessed chief misfit, Alexa Clay, has seen the best in some of the worst. Somali pirates throw great parties. This we …
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