The Spatial Contract
From the publisher: Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly …
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The Economics of Belonging
From the publisher: Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western countries …
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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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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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Why Capitalists Need Communists
The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality, job creation in the face of automation, housing shortages and pressures …
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
From the publisher: The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the …
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US half-shuts door to financial secrecy, opens new window
The US is the world’s second greatest contributor to global financial secrecy, according to the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index, only faring better than Switzerland in complicity in enabling financial …
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Significantly speaking
Stephen Ziliak has spent much of his illustrious career in economics examining the significance of significance – that is the statistical test of significance. It turns out how this test …
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