The playthings of humanity

Tony Curzon Price 8 August 2010
Fulfilment does not come from self-government in Toy Story 3. Can Pixar ever let the Toys go free? See Related Articles for Jeremy O'Grady's reply

The financial sector needs a civil society watchdog

Lorenzo Fioramonti and Ekkehard Thümler 3 August 2010
Non-profits have suffered in the financial crisis no less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. But could this be a 'Greenpeace moment': might philanthropic foundations support the creation of a civil society conscience for international finance?

Has Quantitative Easing worked?

Tony Curzon Price 21 July 2010
Brief post - also out of the Cable talk - on efficacy of QE

Barbed-wire City and Financially Transmitted Diseases

Tony Curzon Price 21 July 2010
Vince Cable explains that the City is a bit like the oil company compounds in Gabon - surrounded by barbed wire, paying a levy to government, but otherwise distant from the host country

Pension reform and growth. Cui bono?

Peter Johnson 12 July 2010
The UK government's decision to re-base pensions won't work, and even if it does, will be counter-productive. It's evidence of the inability of governments to think beyond the corporate view of economics and consider the economy as a whole.

Productivity does not explain wage differentials

Tim Bending 7 July 2010
The co-option of “fairness” by the UK's new government has unnerved many on the left. Yet in reality, all sides have always drawn on the language of fairness. What is at stake is really the interpretation of the causes of inequality; a matter of economics. This article suggests how we should interpret the inequalities of modern society from a post-Keynesian perspective

Book Review: India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation

Yogesh Joshi 2 July 2010
Historical and cultural detail provides a rich understanding of India's powerful new business houses

It's up to You - the economics of openDemocracy

Tony Curzon Price 29 June 2010
Yes, great, independent content costs and if the readers don't pay for it who will? Why you should want openDemocracy to be supported by voluntary reader donations and give if you can

Toward a new Alexandria

Lisbet Rausing 26 June 2010
The guardians of learning can no longer allow the Library to be surrounded with barbed-wire fences. It is time for the academe to liberate scholarship

A Defining Budget IV: The betrayal of the liberal tradition

David Marquand 25 June 2010
After a brief resurgence of Keynesian economics in response to the crash, neoliberalism is back in the ascendant. For the Liberal Democrat party in the UK this signals the abandonment of a proud liberal tradition.

Democratic access to academic knowledge

Fay Bound Alberti 23 June 2010
Technology should have improved access to knowledge much further than it has, and nowhere more so than in the academe. Here is a simple and low-cost proposal to democratise learning in the UK

Optimism, pessimism and rationality

Katharine Hibbert 23 June 2010
In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and squatter Katharine Hibbert sympathises with alternative living but also wants clear thinking

A Defining Budget II: It is simply incredible to call this “fair”

Nick Pearce 22 June 2010
The UK's Coalition has delivered its first and potentially defining budget under the banner of fairness. How do its figures stack up? An insider from Brown's policy team responds.

A Defining Budget I: What does the UK budget mean?

Tony Curzon Price 22 June 2010
What is the balance of the ideological, tactical and necessary in the axe-wielding plans for the UK public sector announced today?

Is the EU too big to be democratic?

Peter Baldwin 22 June 2010
The EU is more divided, diverse and polarised than the USA. But in the EU, the lines of tension are forming worryingly close to the political centre

Euro: Writing on the wall?

Our debate about the euro and the euro zone crisis.

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