Prioritising economic growth without a plan to curb exploitative business practices is not a solution. The UK needs a return to the forward-thinking social reforms of 1945.
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Education strikes by university and public school workers are political fights about diminished respect for education as a public good and workers’ rights in an economy that perpetuates inequality.
The conversation about housing policies needs to highlight the significant role the state plays in creating existing housing problems, and providing the resulting solutions.
While neoliberalism has allowed U.S. markets to grow, the resultant stunted public health system left Americans to figure out how to protect themselves from COVID-19 and its fallout on their own.
After years of neoliberal policies eroding the tax base to pay for high schools, mandatory online learning curriculum from classrooms could be the next international money-maker.
For economics to play a more helpful, critical role, it must abandon blind faith in the free market and embrace the social, historical, and environmental context in which economics actually happens.
What kind of students are we raising when music is seen as a “frill?” The decision to drastically cut music education is a misguided policy.
Bolsonaro promised angry Brazilians he would transform their crisis-stricken country. But he didn’t say how. Five Brazil experts examine his policies on crime, the economy, women, the Amazon and more.
Markets have mobilised feminism to advance political goals and add value.
To get them back, Economics 101 courses need to address real problems.
South Africa’s recently announced economic recovery plan failed to break away from the cumbersome neo-liberal line.
Labour must develop its pro-social and pro-working class agenda for an electorate that has been failed by globalisation and EU integration.
South African economist is one of leading voices questioning the way we relate everything to a single statistic.
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Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Economics, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Economics, UCL
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Research Professor, Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute
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Professor, School of Education, Thompson Rivers University
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Professor of International Politics & Economics, University of East London
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College
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Associate Professor in American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Social Work, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of International and Global Studies, Brandeis University