Nobbled in a noble cause
How we became prize fighters. Henry Leveson-Gower recounts. I was going through my mail (the paper stuff) some months ago when I was a little shocked to open a letter …
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Mariana Mazzucato wins inaugural ‘Not the Nobel’ Prize for fresh thinking in economics
For immediate release Friday 4th October 2019 Mariana Mazzucato wins inaugural ‘Not the Nobel’ Prize for fresh thinking in economics Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Mariana …
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#NotTheNobel Prize – Final Event
Our economic system is driving us towards a perfect storm. We are facing ecological breakdown. Rising debt is threatening a new financial crash. Inequality is pulling societies apart. For 50 …
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Randall Wray – ‘for developing a new theory of money’
Randall Wray is one of the pioneers of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which challenges mainstream economic ideas about currency, debt, and inflation. MMT, according to Wray, offers a way out …
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Tom Rippin- ‘for creating a community of social entrepreneurs working towards a healthy economy’
Tom uses his background in cancer research to recast our economy as a human body, using startling metaphor that our economy is suffering from advanced cancer. Inspired by systems thinking, …
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Kate Raworth – ‘for developing doughnut economics which balances essential human needs and planetary boundaries’
Kate published Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist (2017) a best-selling counter-proposal to mainstream economic thinking that formulates conditions for a sustainable economy. She explains …
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Mariana Mazzucato – ‘for reimagining the role of the state and value in economics’
Mariana’s work focuses on innovation, value, public sector and is influenced by the economist Joseph Schumpeter. Mariana’s 2013 book, ‘The Entrepreneurial State’, used detailed real-world research to show the central …
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Laura Carvalho – ‘for bringing economic debates to the people’
She wrote a best-selling book on the ‘Brazilian Waltz’ / ‘Valsa Brasileira’ (2018), analysing the Brazilian economic and political crises of the past decade and proposing a new agenda of …
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Steve Keen – ‘for predicting the global financial crisis and improving financial models’
Steve is the author of ‘Debunking Economics’ (2001), a trenchant critique of conventional, neoclassical economics such as the efficient market hypothesis, which shows how mainstream models dangerously distort understanding of …
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Old Wounds
When pride takes a fall it’s the same the world over. After Boris’s election, I caught a little bit of his gung-ho optimism. I began to think it could be …
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