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Published in: HomeResponding to Myners: Notes on Co-operative GovernancePaul Myners is conducting a review of Governance of the Co-operative Group in the wake of the near-insolvency caused...
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Published in: oDRThe last camping groundRussia’s oil goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their...
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Published in: oDRThe challenges for Ukraine’s presidential electionOn Sunday 25 May, President Putin permitting, 36.5 million voters will go to the polls in Ukraine to vote for a...
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Published in: oDRAn American in MaidanSuspecting that neither Ukrainians nor people elsewhere were being given an accurate portrayal of what has been...
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Published in: oDRThe partition of UkraineUkraine has been shorn of Crimea, now there is talk of splitting the rest of the country in two, rather as...
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Published in: oDRThe serfs of the Volga Car FactoryThe Volga Car Factory in Togliatti is the biggest in Russia. The management recently announced 7,500 redundancies,...
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Published in: oDRCrime and politics in Crimea
The link between crime and politics in Crimea has been evident for some time. Now, crime boss Sergei Aksyonov – the...
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Published in: oDRUkraine is stuck in a post-Soviet conditionStalin created Ukraine as we know it today. That is why the future of the country, East and West, is stuck in its...
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Published in: TransformationA year of living generouslyGenuine happiness involves sharing time and money, but beware of thinking that the poor belong to some other tribe....
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Published in: oDRThe Maidan is alive and well and planning its futureThe eyes of the world may be fixed on Crimea, but back in Kyiv the Maidan isn’t going away and is looking forward to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJust Money, introduction
In this exclusive extract from Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance Ann Pettifor...
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Published in: oDRRussia in the Middle East: a well-played hand disguises fading fortunesThere is no doubt that Russia’s diplomatic coups in the Middle East late last year caused its stock to rise. But is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe IMF – our sleeping beauty?Finance has cast a spell on the framework for international economic co-operation established after the Second World...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReuniting the monetary union: a proposal to counter the eurozone’s imbalances
Persistent trade imbalances are threatening to derail the European economy. Luca Fantacci calls for a European...
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Published in: oD BlogEnd of the road for populism in Ukraine
Ukrainians are having to pay a high price for the success of their revolution, and it is as yet by no means clear...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFinancial repression - myth, metaphor and reality“Financial repression” always casts state regulators as authoritarian villains and allows apologists for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnderstanding and confronting financialisationThe growth of finance over the last forty years has changed capitalism profoundly. It is time for its critics to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShadow banking, or why black holes are important in the global financial system
The shadow banking sector is now integral to the global financial system. Its architects are constantly seeking to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Keen-Krugman debateThe debate between these two economists on the role of banking and specifically the creation of credit is of...
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Published in: oDRThe importance of not being a 'stan'What’s in a name? President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was apparently in earnest when he recently suggested changing...
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