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 deliver policy. Henry Leveson-Gower shares his discovery of a more …
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Water sports
Marco Janssen proposes that games might provide the solutions to community challenges, rather than nudging things along with subsidies and other interventions. India is running out of water. At least …
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Mutual Understanding
Tony Greenham left the world of thinktanks and discussion on new economics in 2018 to get his hands dirty in doing it for real. He is now leading a project …
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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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The bigger picture
A million pounds can go a long way but sometimes it can be hard to know where to turn. Louise Tickle goes to Cumbria. Two women stand in the middle of …
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Holding Corporations to Account: towards an Economic Democracy?
We take it for granted that we get to vote in elections, but that is of course a relatively recent innovation. Universal suffrage only occurred in 1928. However most of …
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A politics of belonging
Seed-sharing commons help Indian women restore native crops while emancipating themselves from dependency on multinational corporations selling expensive, proprietary GMO seeds. The Commons as a set of responsibilities and entitlements: …
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Manifesto analysis: Anyone for Economic Democracy?
As the election campaign grinds ahead, so too does our search for signs of parties breaking out of the mainstream economics box. This week it is Economic Democracy on our …
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Life in the cross hairs
Being a good corporate citizen comes with risks. Andrew Black tells the tale of a close escape. For corporates that have medium-term planning regimes, taking seriously the considerable challenges posed …
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Basic Income and Universal Basic Services: conflicting or complementary?
Two distinct ideas are being promoted to help fix Britain’s broken social security system and badly depleted public services. The first idea – of basic income (BI) – seeks a …
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