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Taboo economics: CPD calls for more planning of future economy

Economy & Industry

The Centre for Policy Development joins a growing number of economists and policy experts challenging the planned versus “free” economy binary.

Yanis Varoufakis calls for public ownership of essential digital services

By Dan Holmes

News

Former Greek finance minister Varoufakis said money and power are concentrated in a way that hasn’t been seen since the Gilded Age.

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Setting corporations free: The birth of the modern company

By Sean Innis

Economy & Industry

One vision of the future of the company emphasises government, and the other, private markets. Their only agreement is the need for change.

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Competition, neoliberalism, crony capitalism? Right looks to rig emerging debate

By Bernard Keane

Economy & Industry

Capitalism tends to oligopoly because investors love companies that are protected from competition. The results are inevitable.

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Consultants: Con artists or virtuous partners?

By Sean Innis

Economy & Industry

While consultants are often highly qualified, there is no degree in consulting and no oversight body. Anyone can be a consultant, even you.

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Will Gen Z’s work ideology be the way forward?

By Helena Cain

Community & Social

As capitalism goes into overdrive, Helena Cain explores what the Gen Z dream and way of life might mean for the future of work.

After the rise of the West and Asia, we need a better form of capitalism

By Peter Vanham and Johnny Harris

Economy & Industry

The world has seen an explosion of wealth in the postwar years, accompanied by an alarming increase in inequality and a level of environmental damage never seen before.

Know your place – poetry after the Black Death reflected fear of social change

By Stephen Rigby

Community & Social

The sharp fall in population caused by the waves of plague which followed the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 led to one of the most dramatic periods of economic and social change in English history.

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Can we thrive economically but save the earth at the same time? A review of ‘How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next’

By The Mandarin

Communications & Technology

Andrew McAfee’s new book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next, offers a thoroughly analytical, brightly optimistic take on technology’s impact on humanity — and a hopeful vision for what lies ahead, writes Vanessa Bates Ramirez.

All the books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about at Davos

By Heather Landy

Economy & Industry

Like a lot of corporate chieftains, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is a book person. He reads books, he writes them, he gives them to the people around him. And in an on-stage interview last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he discussed no fewer than five of them, averaging one mention of […]

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The way is clear, now all we need is the (political) will. The four policy elements that would ensure the decarbonisation of Australia’s economy

By The Mandarin

Economy & Industry

If we are serious about reinventing capitalism in its current form, we will find the encounter overwhelmingly complex. But the decarbonisation challenge can be solved with imagination and genuine leadership, writes Richard Hames.

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Are we wise enough (smart enough) to survive our own success? If so, how can we all get along better? Practicing tolerance in the Age of Stupid

By Richard Hames

Culture

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them — Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1676 The burden of unbounded knowledge weighs heavily on those with open minds. Those trapped within a specific moral code express righteous indignation that their beliefs should be […]

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