Columns
Interviews - Audio
Is less actually more?
Less toil is, more or less, good. Frances Coppola explains....
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Hard knocks
Now and again I am asked by young people for...
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Astronomical problems
Cumberland, chipolata and other meaty challenges in the care sector. ...
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I am writing this from southern France where we are...
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Indian Summary
Surbhi Kesar is a young, Indian, pluralist economist, who has...
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The Clout of Africa
The Mint caught up again with US-based, Kenyan economist, Mwangi...
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Chinese walls are invisible
German economist and erstwhile policy adviser, Wolfram Elsner, has just...
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Articles
Past Events - Audio
Making a job guarantee work
Stephen Laughton and John Pye outline a means to an end of unemployment. One of the important ideas that has...
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A portrait of the landscape
The palette of land management skills extends beyond shades of green. Broad strokes of business acumen, scientific expertise and collaborative...
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Machine learning
The robots are here. What now? Stephen J. Frenkel and Tom Barnes explore the possibilities for workers and employers. The...
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Gutted, shattered, cowering and showered in shit.
Paul Frijters paints an expressionist picture of artificial intelligence’s impact on work Artificial intelligence (AI) is impressive. That much is...
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Ecology is not an alternative
UK agricultural colleges often struggle to embrace regenerative practices. Alex Gray looks at how the next generation of farmers might...
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Who knows best?
When it comes to matters of plans for regional economies, Henry Leveson-Gower suggests the government might want to start from...
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Levelling up – will it turn Britain into a more equal country?
‘Levelling up’ is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become a...
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The Digital Economy: a Covid Winner but for whom?
During lockdown, the digital economy has been essential and has boomed. But are private network monopolies in the public interest?...
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Split: Class Divides Uncovered…. by Covid-19?
How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? The...
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Sabotage and Covid-19
Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a...
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From Nudges to Catalysts: A New Approach to Policy for a New Decade
Elinor Ostrom at her 2009 Nobel lecture said: “Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better...
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A New Gold Standard or Impoverished Economics
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo...
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