Columns
Interviews - Audio
The seduction of AI
ChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other...
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Gnostic and gnocchi
The good professor finds art in the artificial and enjoys...
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The power of pluck
When David fought Goliath, what if the big guy was...
Read MoreNeither credible nor edible
The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a...
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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
States of disunity from colonies to Trump
Richard Vague traces the class division and enmity that has characterised Trump’s presidency back to America’s colonial beginnings. Many thought...
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Are students economical with the verity?
Henry Leveson-Gower reviews results from a recent report that tells how cues from mainstream authority sway economics students even at...
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A Chinese giveaway
Alan Freeman explains why China’s pole position in the artificial intelligence race might be down to sharing rather than competing....
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The shocking untruth
Roger Miles warns of vanishing common sense as over-reliance on artificial intelligence grinds us down into a population of gullible...
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Rewriting the rules
International trade and finance rules have, since their inception, remained skewed in favour of the richest nations. Rick Rowden argues...
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The pub: going down
Lauren Leek says Britain’s pub crisis is about far more than pints. It is about the quiet disappearance of places...
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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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