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The US is moving away from a laissez-faire version of capitalism and toward a state-directed form.
Mainstream economics has been complicit in the climate change crisis as it falsely treats climate change as a mere side-effect of production or a minor aberration.
Adam Smith’s arguments for accessible, universal, quality education could be applied to address the UK skills shortage.
Everyone wants to claim the economic thinker as their own.
The Scottish economist dedicated his life’s work to understanding the consequences – moral, social and political – of capitalism. Both neoliberals and leftwingers claim his legacy.
Prices are up to five times higher than the raw costs of production for many of the goods and services we all need.
Hives that travel by truck, bees paid for their pollination service, adulterated honey, economic theories based on an imaginary social organization…
Young people might take on a lot of debt without considering its consequences for their older years. A philosopher makes a case for laws to limit that debt as a duty toward self.
After the pandemic is over, grocery workers and nurses will still be essential. But will they be paid any better?
Prices are the signals the private sector relies on to direct resources. Snuffing out these signals may prove too costly for consumers in the end.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
In economics classes, relentless growth is an unquestioned dogma. Yet this same economic growth is rapidly ripping apart the ecological foundations of our world.
Do regulators act in the public interest, or in the interest of those they are meant to regulate?
The shutdown is highlighting the crucial role government plays in the lives of citizens and businesses, offering a reminder of its fundamental value to the economy.
The end of effective antibiotics will be frightening. Life expectancy will fall dramatically and people of all ages will die from illnesses that we are used to treating with $10 worth of pills.
On the fourth era of business schools and the urgency of reinventing them.
Nailed to the door of the London School of Economics, the ‘33 Theses’ offer a long overdue challenge to economics dogma. But there are omissions as well.
Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit could economically benefit the UK.
When Enlightenment thinkers were looking for a way to build a healthy and productive society, they hit upon the tuber.
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