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The Midas Disease

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The chimney swift

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The worldly turn

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In praise of possibility

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After slavery

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The tyranny of work

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Last acre

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Thirty glorious years

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Time-based currency by Robert Owen

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Counting China

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The fist of modernity

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Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good

The dark shadow in the injunction to ‘do what you love’

The rumour about the Jews

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Turn and live with animals

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We have the tools and technology to work less and live better

Mammon

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