In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
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Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.
Todd Phillips’ film reflects a society that is distrustful of traditional power structures and voicing that disillusionment at the ballot box.
Why a spontaneous popular movement emerged in Hong Kong.
Some Cuban entrepreneurs are so openly anti-communist that they sound like, well, capitalists.
New research suggests that non-profits tempted by the social enterprise model do not necessarily lose sight of their social mission in favour of profits. In fact, the opposite is true.
Scholars link the emergence of the term boredom to European industrial modernity, and the standardization of time, repetitive labour and development of leisure time associated with it.
High levels of inequality damage our health, harm social cohesion and act as a brake on economic performance.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits. Even the Business Roundtable agrees.
Barbuda’s recovery is deliberately slow as neighbouring Antigua wants to develop the island’s tourism.
Liberal democracy is in trouble, and the seeds of its demise can be found in the property rights so cherished by so-called liberals generations ago.
The current system drives social injustice and environmental destruction, a new approach to address both is called for.
From Ford to Facebook, companies have long used benefits to mold employee behavior – even incentivizing the ‘right’ kind of lifestyle.
Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
How can the climate strikers’ demands of system change be met?
JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
Almost one-third of countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. Their bad behavior poses a threat to real democracies, as the United States recently learned.
The sharing economy is often romanticised as a shift away from the evils of capitalism to a more communal and socially conscious way of life. But is this simply clever marketing?
The average consumerist suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. But what if affluent suburbanites and battlers alike ditch the rat race and embrace economic ‘degrowth’? Here’s how it might unfold.
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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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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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