The divestment movement highlights a set of challenges to the future of capitalism that extend far beyond its unsustainable environmental externalities.
The key question is how to change the economy to fit the needs of everyone, not how to change everyone to fit the needs of the economy.
Welcome to the new economy, where everyone is free to submit to another round of degrading competition.
The burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower is a visible reminder that public responsibilities should never be watered down.
The benefits of financial security are obvious, so why doesn’t the idea of UBI enjoy more popular support?
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?
Why aren’t donors held to the same standards as recipients in philanthropy and foreign aid?
Economics matters enormously for the future, but its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date.
For recipients aid has been a very mixed blessing, but for donors it’s been a bonanza.
The alternatives we imagine are products of the times in which we live. A review of Peter Frase’s book Four Futures.
The European Commission has shelved the results of its largest-ever research project on corporate social responsibility. What happened?
