Issue 514 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
July-August 2018
The next financial crisis
Ten years ago I took an entry-level economics class at school. It was September 2008. Lehman Brothers had just filed for bankruptcy. ‘It’s certainly an interesting time to be studying economics!’ the teacher said. It was – but you wouldn’t have known from the syllabus. There was nothing about the financial system. There were, however, plenty of elegant abstractions, showing the intersection of supply and demand in a timeless, spaceless universe.
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The next financial crisis
Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt overload? Leading economists including Jayati Ghosh, Cédric Durand and...
Botswana: losing its sparkle?
Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality.
Mixed Media: Hot Docs
Highlights from the major documentary film festival held annually in Toronto, Canada.
The carbon bubble
Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.
How to make housing a human right
In major US cities, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs. Mark Engler...
Against their will
Lea Surugue and Gisella Ligios report on the Roma women fighting to make the Czech authorities face up to the scandal of forced...
The interveners
In India, Sophie Cousins spends time with women activists who are slowly shifting the stigma around mental health and getting...
Worldbeater: Isaias Afwerki
We put the President of Eritrea’s track record – liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight.
Is the ‘Data Mafia’ here to stay?
From the moment you were born, The Man With The Data knew you better than you knew yourself. Omar Hamdi explains.
Inside Hungary’s post-truth laboratory
Viktor Orbán, the country's autocratic hard man, is riding high, with the help of young propaganda-mongers. Lorraine Mallinder...
Home sweet home
The foreclosure crisis in the US is still a reality for many. Jack Crosbie reports on the human cost of finance.
China: a post-neoliberal order?
For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of a Chinese century...
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