WINIR takes all
David Gindis and Francesca Gagliardi tell how scholars in many disciplines and from many nations are joining in dialogue to promote the study of the stuff of social and economic …
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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 devliver policy. Henry Leveson-Gower shares his discovery of a more …
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Accentuate the positive
It all started with hope. Now we have viral infection. But there is still hope. I came up with “hope” as the theme for this issue in the autumn. I was …
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Taking sides
Nicholas Gruen questions the value of competition and proposes a new frontier for political and economic reform. Since Adam Smith, economists have marvelled at competition’s capacity to improve our world …
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The Mint is listening to… Daniel Woodell 21, Third year Economics
It has been almost ten years since economics students rose up in protest against the way they were being taught. Has anything changed? The dire state of economics at university …
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Cooperatives on the table
Jessica Gordon-Nembhard is a leading economist studying co-operatives. In fact she effectively invented this economic research agenda in the US. She was brought up by social activists who discussed Marx …
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Saving you the trouble
Felicia Wong and her team at the Roosevelt Institute in New York have just read the work of 150 leading new economics thinkers so you don’t have to. They have …
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Mind over the matter
Teachers of pluralist economics need to foster argument that is sound, not shrill. Amy S Cramer and Laura Markowitz make a point. It’s the first day of the semester at …
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Spine of the times
Read is not dead. Nigella Vigorosso-Heck sees demand for pages keep on turning. We live in an age where any A Level student can access all the information they could …
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