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7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

5 Aug 2018 2 minute read

The carbon bubble

Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.

Julius sits on the porch of his house in Trenton, New Jersey, looking north at Ewing Township where foreclosure rates are drastically lower.

15 Jul 2018 5 minute read

Home sweet home

The foreclosure crisis in the US is still a reality for many. Jack Crosbie reports on the human cost of...

30 Jun 2018 17 minute read

The next financial crisis

Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt overload? Leading economists including Jayati Ghosh, ...

1 Jul 2018 11 minute read

When the world almost ended

Ten years after the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, Yohann Koshy takes stock of what...

8 Jul 2018 6 minute read

China: a post-neoliberal order?

For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of...

24 Jun 2018 5 minute read

Have economists changed since the 2008 crash?

The economics profession was partly to blame for the financial meltdown of 2007-08. C...

Passengers at Clapham Junction, south London. According to a 2017 Legatum Institute poll 76 per cent of British passengers want the railways in public ownership.

21 May 2018 5 minute read

The efficiency myth

Nick Dowson dismantles the notion that the private sector does things better.

10 May 2018 7 minute read

‘Privatization has failed repeatedly’

Dinyar Godrej interviews We Own It campaign founder Cat Hobbs on why the time is ripe for...

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

The other side of the Bitcoin

Bitcoin is more than premium bonds for hipsters or the veganism of finance, writes Omar Hamdi.

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Mark Engler: ‘America First’ is a corporate scam

26 Mar 2018 3 minute read

When ‘America First’ is a corporate scam

Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler.

Organized labour is under attack in Indonesia

11 Jan 2018 5 minute read

Indonesia cracks down on organized labour

Unions face backlash after years of minimum wage increases. Fahmi Panimbang writes.

1 Jan 2018 4 minute read

Our January book picks

This issue’s reviews include The Growth Delusion, by David Pilling and The White City, by Roma Tearne.

World’s largest coalmine: Protesters, including First Nations people, blocking the road to Adani’s Abbot Point coal port.

10 Dec 2017 5 minute read

Plan for Australia’s largest coal mine faces struggle

Australia’s Adani mine must be stopped, argue Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret.

1 Nov 2017 3 minute read

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Brexit’s threat to Africa trade

Nick Dowson reports on Brexit’s impact on some Global South economies.

15 Sep 2017 3 minute read

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A society beyond consumerism

Consumerism thrives on discontentment: Tim Jackson previews his talk at the Resurgence Festival of Wellbeing...

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