Smash and grab
Ruben Andersson and David Keen are academic investigators seeking to understand what they see as a conundrum: How come politicians and their collaborators are able to pursue for so long, …
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Moral bankruptcy
Colin Mayer CBE is an eminent Oxford University professor and fellow of the British Academy – the top club for social scientists. He believes that capitalism is in crisis and …
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Money talks
Seven years ago a group of students who were central to the revolt against mainstream economic teaching in universities, published a book, The Econocracy. This book criticised mainstream economics education …
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The differential equation
David Stainforth is professor of physics with a deep passion for modelling the dimensions of the climate crisis in a form that is useful for decision makers and the wider …
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Tough take
Jocelyn Olcott, a professor at Duke University, is an expert on feminist history and the history of feminist economics. So The Mint sought her take on where things stood. Are …
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The philanthropist’s stone
Amy Schiller makes her living advising on how to do philanthropy well. And she has written a book suggesting the approach to most modern philanthropy is fundamentally misguided. The main …
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Killer watts
Helen Thompson is a professor of international political economy who thinks that understanding energy can explain a lot (if not all as she is careful to say) that has happened …
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Beyond the pale?
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko talks to The Mint about the Brussels’ beyond-growth moment, the politics it sidestepped, and why “decolonise the climate” says what it means. When Lebohang Liepollo Pheko walked …
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Talking Shop
Christopher Dent is an international political economist who has been observing how international institutions have talked the neo-liberal language on climate change, energy and environment for the past few decades. …
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Fools and their money
Rosie Collington, with Mariana Mazzucato, are authors of a new book laying bare the world of consultancies and their clients. They argue that the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilises …
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