My new book in German with the translated title: “Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making” has just been published by Campus. I have translated the “Introduction […]
The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income […]
Financial crises are often the product of private debt being too high. According to Richard Murphy this situation is rapidly approaching in Britain. The question is what to do when the crisis arrives? Richard Murphy […]
Every so often humanity manages genuinely to surprise itself. Events to which we had previously assigned zero probability push us into what the ancient Greeks referred to as aporia: a state of intense bafflement urgently […]
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future. Rachel Lurie is an Analyst at the Princeton University Investment Company. She graduated […]
In this weekend’s long-read article, Grigoris Markou surveys the re-emergence of Marxist and Communist ideas in contemporary political discourse. Tracing the relationship between Marxism and Populism, Markou concludes: ‘convergence between populism and Marxism seems to be […]
The EU political elite simply cannot shake off its subservience to financial corporations, as Carl Bildt’s tweet once again proves. Democracy plays no role in his vision for Europe. There will have to eventually be a […]
“The idea that certain political decisions require high levels of knowledge and technical competency—and thus cannot be left simply to public democratic debate—is problematic for democracies, as it implies delegating public policy framing and decision […]
This is a text that Branko Milanovic wrote in 1999 (!). It was never published, having been rejected a number of times. It is fascinating reading as the author tries to identify what the components […]
Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Cross-posted from Danny Dorling´s blog In hindsight we should have seen it coming. But none of us did, or at least no one […]
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