Long before the modern degrowth movement, Islamic economic thought placed limits on consumption, challenged wealth concentration and treated economic activity as a moral question.
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Mamet’s classic play is famous for its macho swagger. A recent production suggests the real subject was always work and power.
A growing wave of content suggests what feels ‘real’ online is changing.
The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
What happens when a rapper whose early work explored capitalism’s brutality becomes one of the system’s most successful beneficiaries?
AI-driven platforms pull informal labour into the global digital economy but push the risks and responsibilities back onto workers. Cases in Indonesia show that women pay the highest price.
A definition of happiness must include unhappiness and chance if it’s to have real meaning.
China’s economic growth didn’t benefit Hu Anyan – but his exceptional literary talent did. His book about struggling to survive as a gig worker is a worldwide hit.
No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.
Since the game launched in 1935, 3,400 different versions of Monopoly have been issued worldwide.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from both, but is stranger than either.
A chocolate rivalry in the 1960s transformed a Pennsylvania town and its iconic amusement park.
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.
A state-owned, ‘no frills’ competitor would have one goal: to move commodities efficiently from producers to consumers as cheaply as possible.
The US is moving away from a laissez-faire version of capitalism and toward a state-directed form.
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
While economic forces have streamlined many global dishes into uniform, predictable formats, pizza continues to thrive in all its messy and delicious variety.
Reclaiming the true meaning of calling can rebuild trust and renew systems from the inside out.
Uncertainty is the new norm.
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Research Fellow, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Fellow in Nonprofit Organizations, UMass Amherst
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford