Monday 8th February

Radical Homemakers

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

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

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

Zadek in Davos

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

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

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
Friday 18th December

The primitive Keynesianism of Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'

The traditional interpretation of Scrooge is of an avaricious miser graced by visitations which convert him into an enthusiast for Christmas. But from a Keynesian point of view, Scrooge is a hoarder with an obsession for maintaining almost complete liquidity in deflationary times like the early 1840’s. Even then, Dickens recognised the problem and understood the cure…
Thursday 17th December

The money's there

Issue sovereign debt for climate investment. From www.zadek.com
Wednesday 16th December

Refining the revision of Plan A

Zadek responds to the commentary on his argument that any top-down multilateral agreement relying for success on sovereign abatement commitments and international public finance funding credibly verified outcomes is doomed to failure. (From zadek.wordpress.com)
Friday 11th December

The last refuge of prejudice

Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice

Remember - 14 Giga Tons

Simon Zadek blogs from Copenhagen
Sunday 6th December

Phones and the control of money

The control of money issue, creation and transfer is about to move from banks and states to mobile phone companies. A big change, both welcome and unwelcome
Thursday 3rd December

Not-so-private equity

Private equity firms are warning that economic growth will be jeopardized if governments do not press state-dependent banks to write off debts owed them by the leveraged buyout industry - so that the industry can start borrowing again. How can private equity be in need of government support?
Wednesday 2nd December

The mass psychology of climate change - scientists need 'attitude'

The media storm over the hacked CRU e-mails shows that staying above the mud fight is a forlorn hope
Tuesday 1st December

Bentham and usury – a reply to Tony Curzon Price and Thomas Ash

In October Tony Curzon Price and Thomas Ash replied to Peter Johnson's piece presenting Karl-Heinz Brodbeck’s critique of the utilitarian defence of the charging of interest. Here, Peter Johnson argues that they approached the question from quite different angles and offers to set down a few thoughts in response to each
Tuesday 17th November

How the wage squeeze fuelled the crash and threatens recovery

As part of his TUC touchstone report "Unfair to Middling: How Middle Income Britain's Shrinking Wages Fuelled the Crash and Threaten Recovery", Stewart Lansley argues that a long term wage sqeeze on lower and middle income groups has had a serious effect on the global financial crisis, and may threaten any 'green shoots' of recovery in the future
Thursday 12th November

Here comes the citizen co-producer

The austere public budgets that will come out of the financial crisis offer, as a silver lining, a renaissance in cooperative citizen engagement in the supply of welfare services
Wednesday 11th November

Is the next crash just around the corner?

Professor Nouriel Roubini believes we are already pumping up the next financial markets bubble, whose collapse will dwarf that of 2008. If he’s right, we face an unthinkable political and economic disaster. Why does he think this, and can we do anything to forestall it?
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