From Promoting Economic Pluralism
Everyone makes mistakes. And that includes the world’s biggest companies, which are reliably prone to gaffes, errors of judgment and wrongdoing. Some of these moments could even be labelled as …
Why big firms are rarely toppled by corporate scandals – new research Read More
Isaac Stanley explains why care is infrastructure. Biden’s much-discussed Infrastructure Bill eventually passed into law in October in the US. This followed extensive political wrangling between different wings of the …
Holding it all together Read More
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: El Salvador this week officially became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Tim Padgett of member station WLRN in Miami …
El Salvador Has Adopted Bitcoin As Legal Tender Read More
You might want to get familiar with this term because you will be hearing it a lot: the bond taper, or more widely known as just the taper. When markets …
The Bond Taper & Why You Should Know About It Read More
Locally grown food is growing. Can data help plough the furrow? By Lynne Davis 2020 was a year like no other, but for those of us working in community-led food …
Off the scale Read More
Artificial intelligence rarely gets it wrong – it’s the culture that programmed it that’s messed up, says Madhavi Venkatesan. I have become accustomed to my smart phone alerting me in …
Algorithm and blues: whose tune do we dance to? Read More
From the publisher: The modern world is built on commodities – from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider …
The World for Sale Read More
From the publisher: Debunking the myths around the current economic belief systems, this book reveals how mainstream perspectives work for the benefit of the organised money establishment, while causing all …
Remaking the Real Economy Read More
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 …
A rent-seeking bastard speaks Read More
From the publisher: The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism. Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place …
The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism Read More