Capitalism is, as the Marxists used to say, full of contradictions. It may well be the greatest wealth-generating machine ever invented. But it is famously volatile, unpredictable and prone to cyclical…
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Naomi Klein has told the sidelines of the Paris climate talks that real climate action can’t be delivered without social justice too.
Democracy’s problem is not the crisis but the triumph of capitalism. Democracy has become market-conforming, resulting in whole sections of society lacking meaningful representation.
With more and more street artists partnering with corporations, it’s important that they don’t compromise their moral standing to earn a living.
While free markets have delivered benefits, they also prey on our weaknesses, tempting us to buy things that are bad for us, be it sweet candy or sour investments.
A new way of doing business in Africa is needed. The pursuit of profits needs to go hand in hand with community development.
The egalitarian society envisioned by political activists and thinkers Rick Turner and Steve Biko has not been realised. But, they continue to inspire critiques of post-apartheid South Africa.
The VW emissions scandal gives governments every right to increase their supervisory role beyond regulation and to involve themselves to a much larger degree in economic activity.
Two visions of the ‘new economy’, one based on environmental and social justice values, the other on disruptive technologies, are coming together to challenge the status quo.
To make a meaningful difference to climate change, businesses will have to break out of a cycle of exploiting the earth’s resources in ever-more creative ways.
Many people consider capitalism the cause of climate change. Can leading thinkers in business and academia make business the primary means to tackle the climate crisis?
Republicans’ problem with the pope is not that he’s too liberal on issues such as capitalism, it’s that he’s too conservative.
Christopher Wright speaks with Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein about capitalism's impact on the environment and how it has influenced our responses to climate change.
Democratising the sharing economy might reduce profits but it would probably benefit people and the environment more.
Climate change ‘changes everything’, says the writer Naomi Klein. The only way society can respond is to change itself - and that will need everyone on be on the same page instead of arguing about it.
Banksy has pulled off a modern retelling of ancient fairy tales.
Something similar to E.P. Thompson’s story of England in the first three decades of the 1800s has happened in Australia between the mid-1980s and today.
While some find it hard to imagine life after capitalism, the digitally connected people of the world have begun embracing a new set of ethical concerns requiring new types of economies.
The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason. But research indicates that it actually has many possible futures.
It seems like every year there is controversy over Glastonbury lineups and the worst sin in popular music – that of “selling out”.
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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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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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