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Home
Whether above a pub or in a castle, our childhood homes leave an indelible mark
15 minutes
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Economics
The empty basket
Economics is the language of power and affects us all. What can we do to improve its impoverished menu of ideas?
Ha-Joon Chang
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Demography and migration
How the world’s harshest lockdown hit India’s millions of migrant workers
27 minutes
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Anthropology
Keeping the score
The gifts we exchange are both generous and yet fraught with social rules and obligations. Marcel Mauss explained why
Gili Kliger
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Work
Living out of a truck, Maikhuu finds promise and peril on Mongolia’s ‘coal highway’
25 minutes
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Economics
We all play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?
30 minutes
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Art
Is paying with hand-drawn banknotes artistry or forgery? The knotty case of J S G Boggs
10 minutes
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Economics
Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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Economics
A softer economics
Financial markets are entangled and uncertain. When will economists let go of physics envy to embrace the quantum revolution?
David Orrell
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Economics
The worldly turn
After generations of ‘blackboard economics’, Berkeley and MIT are leading a return to economics that studies the real world
Tom Bergin
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Travel
‘My people!’ A Trinidadian’s love letter to his island, just before its 1962 independence
17 minutes
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Economics
The biggest picture
No wonder we cannot agree on how globalisation works and whether it’s a good thing. All the stories we have are flawed
Anthea Roberts & Nicholas Lamp
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Animals and humans
Familiarity breeds roach-respect, and even love, for a group of Florida insect farmers
13 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
Bigger isn’t better – the renegade ‘Buddhist economics’ of E F Schumacher
30 minutes
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Economics
Stock-picking for humanity
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too
Ellen Quigley
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Future of technology
Tech companies shroud their algorithms in secrecy. It’s time to pry open the black box
4 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
The abuses of Popper
A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
Charlotte Sleigh
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Subcultures
Dented cans, ugly fruit – it’s all tasty (and free) if you’re willing to get your hands dirty
21 minutes
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Economic history
Economics for the people
Against the capitalist creeds of scarcity and self-interest, a plan for humanity’s shared flourishing is finally coming into view
Dirk Philipsen
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Human rights and justice
Weak links
The idea of the ‘supply chain’ shackles how we think about economic justice. What forces could new metaphors unleash?
Michael Gibb
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Work
Universal unions
Being an employee is a threat to your liberty. But while firms exist, compulsory unions are a basic safeguard of freedom
Mark R Reiff
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Human rights and justice
Private gain, public loss
Putting public services in private hands is bad economics. Worse, it undermines our bonds as a political community
Alon Harel
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Economics
Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
Dirk Philipsen
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Economics
The people’s economist
Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name
Roger Backhouse