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Extreme wealth: the way the one per cent lives.

8 Jan 2018 3 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

The lives of the filthy rich

Mark Engler reflects on the vulgar reality of extreme wealth.

Automation and basic income.

1 Nov 2017 5 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Plutocrats and paupers: life after robots

If automation decimates jobs, we need better solutions than these, argues Nick Dowson.

tax avoidance

1 Dec 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Fox in charge of the hen house

Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.

1 May 2016 5 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

The Disrupted

Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.

2 Sep 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Migration and the European push-factor

For decades we have exported a Western consumerist dream to the Global South; little wonder migrants now want to share our...

22 Jan 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Does our money-obsessed world really make us happy?

Life under capitalism is a long way from the image we are sold, says Amit Singh. We need another way.

17 Dec 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

The truth about inequality

Wealth is highly concentrated
among relatively few very rich people, says Michael Roscoe.

10 Dec 2014 2 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Work: Why are there so few decent jobs now?

Michael Roscoe examines why there are so few decent jobs at the moment.

1 Dec 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Where does wealth come from?

Michael Roscoe examines what gives money its value.

1 Dec 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Ten steps towards a better world

Things are going to get worse but, argues Michael Roscoe, there are possible solutions.

1 Dec 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Even in difficult times, we can still be happy...

The end of growth doesn’t have to mean the end of prosperity, argues Michael Roscoe.

10 Sep 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

The Western way isn’t always the best way

Development – when forced onto poor countries – is a dangerous concept, argues Amit Singh.

1 Sep 2014 8 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Stop the gold rush!

Our appetite for the shiny metal is both pointless and dangerous, argues Richard Swift.

1 Sep 2014 5 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

India's gold obsession is increasing the wealth gap

Jaideep Hardikar reports from a country in the grip of gold fever.

23 May 2014 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Why the Philippines won’t be the next Asian miracle

Iris Gonzales isn’t convinced by buoyant World Economic Forum predictions.

4 Mar 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

The 5% own more and more; the 95% owe more and more

Colin Cook relates a modern-day parable to explain the failures of our economic system.

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