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?

Banks make money. Literally, money is their output. But social guarantees are their input. Should they be the ones making money?

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

Issue sovereign debt for climate investment. From www.zadek.com

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)

Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice

Simon Zadek blogs from Copenhagen

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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?