Thursday 18th March

How to tell your debt from your deficit

Tony Curzon Price, 18 March 2010
A quick clarification on debts, deficits and affordability

Doha, development and the agriculture issue: Let’s get real!

Charles Barclay Roger, 18 March 2010
Roger assesses the effects of agricultural subsidies and market barriers on the welfare of the world's poorest.
Monday 15th March

Recovery requires redistribution

Tim Bending, 15 March 2010
As governments everywhere struggle with cutting deficits without hammering the recovery from the financial crisis, a new book argues that Keynes has had the solution for a long time.
Sunday 7th March

Hidden Incentives: How Tax Equity is Foiled – the Footloose Rich, the Corporate Lobby

Nizar Manek, 7 March 2010
The Ashcroft affair underlines why taxation and citizenship – for persons physical and moral – need to be closely tied
Thursday 4th March

India's big guns bazaar

Nitasha Kaul, 4 March 2010
Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.
Monday 1st March

Trust the people on climate change

Stephen Plowden, 1 March 2010
While inconsistency with respect to climate change runs so deep in government policy, how can we expect people to behave differently?
Thursday 25th February

Netanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran

Thomas S Evans, 25 February 2010
Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would be likely to work to the detriment of the West’s and Israel’s goals.
Tuesday 23rd February

More bank for your buck

Peter Johnson, 23 February 2010
The UK Shadow Chancellor's proposal to offer the public a discount to buy shares in banks taken into state ownership over the last two years

Optimal currency areas and the politics of fooling around

Tony Curzon Price, 23 February 2010
The passage between Scylla and Charibdis in the ocean of currencies implies neither euro nor drachma, but more democratic control over the economy
Thursday 18th February

Tea Party history: it was anti big-business

Jim Sleeper, 18 February 2010
The Boston Tea Party's history of trying to properly separate government and business holds serious lessons for today's partiers
Friday 12th February

Philanthrocapitalism: the defense

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, 12 February 2010
Today's big philanthropists understand the power of politics, and Michael Edwards should give them more credit
Wednesday 10th February

Deliberation – Lessons from Brazil

Andrea Cornwall, 10 February 2010
By giving people permission to dream, space to debate, chance to learn, opportunities to contribute to righting deep-rooted wrongs, Brazil is creating a nation of informed, politically engaged citizens. The UK can learn from its example.

Marriage's lost benefits: tax credits and election promises

Simon McMahon, 10 February 2010
British conservatives claim that the tax system penalises marriage and that this is responsible for social break down. Simon McMahon finds the first claim fair, but the second less so
Monday 8th February

Radical Homemakers

Shannon Hayes, 8 February 2010
Rediscovering and reshaping a world in which husbands were house-bound and families were free, what are the skills and virtues needed for a life of radical voluntary domestic simplicity?
Wednesday 3rd February

How banks make money

Peter Johnson, 3 February 2010
Banks make money. Literally, money is their output. But social guarantees are their input. Should they be the ones making money?
Tuesday 26th January

Knowledge work is more democratic

David Kaplan, 26 January 2010
Industrial policy aimed at promoting knowledge work should be welcomed because of the particular nature of the work: more humane, long-termist, co-operative, democratic and egalitarian

Why social transformation is not a job for the market

Michael Edwards, 26 January 2010
Michael Edwards introduces his new book, "Small change, Why business won't change the world"

Zadek in Davos

Simon Zadek, 26 January 2010
We've survived the economic crisis, but global governance failed. Davos 2010 should be about fixing it. Are we ready for de-Hayekification? From Zadek's blog.
Monday 18th January

In praise of hybridity

Ales Debeljak, 18 January 2010
Ever since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important is that civilisation is a process of cultural exchange, and hybridity is a source of the truly human in the form of new meanings
Tuesday 5th January

The Kindle era

John Jackson, 5 January 2010
The author looks forward to the 'Kindle Era', predicting that the Kindle will facilitate self publishing online, and so break publishing houses' 'commerical' oriented grip on what can be published
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