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More information doesn’t necessarily result in better predictions of stock prices.
Neoliberalism encourages us to see ourselves as isolated individuals, responsible for our own success or failure.
Corporations are ‘legal persons’ under the law. But their ability to be ‘owned’ by shareholders embeds a system of exploitation at the heart of capitalism.
In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic reform.
The dread that AI evokes seems a distraction from the more disquieting scrutiny of humanity’s own dark nature.
Ulrike Herrmann argues we no longer have the time to wait for technological breakthroughs that might solve the climate crisis.
The US economy has always been a mix of government regulation and market forces. The balance between those has shifted over time, but never has one side or the other been substantively removed.
Development agencies should be careful about creating tensions between existing cultural norms and new concepts and behaviours they are introducing.
How oil changed capitalism.
In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
In the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos, the first wave of COVID-19 brought unprecedented chaos and a black market in oxygen and mass graves.
The death of capitalism has been greatly exaggerated.
In contrast to other critiques of capitalism that tend to highlight the players behind the scenes, ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 unearths why people play along with the system in the first place.
Climate change affects women’s health, livelihoods and security disproportionately because of gender inequality and patriarchal structures.
Our response to the housing crisis is conditioned by the choices we made when faced with the industrial city’s workers’ housing crisis. We must accept this heritage and question it.
Unless the economic benefits resulting from having the government of national unity become socially inclusive, it might well collapse.
Communism, Marxism and socialism are all different economic and political ideas. As concepts, they all seek to move toward greater economic equality and public participation in democracy.
Guinness adverts show how African men’s search for validation can enrich western corporations.
A new book argues that climate change rose from imperialism and capitalism.
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