How Bronze Age Rulers Simply Canceled Debts
Clean Slate proclamations were part of the community’s self-preservation.
Michael Hudson
How Universal Basic Income Solves Widespread Insecurity and Radical Inequality
Answering the four big objections from critics of UBI
Daniel Nettle
Self-Driving Vehicles: What Will Happen to Truck Drivers?
The replacement of drivers will be one of the most dramatic, visible battlegrounds between automation and the human worker.
Andrew Yang
Why Wealth Is Determined More by Power Than Productivity
Analyzing power beyond the narrow concept of ‘market power’ is essential.
Laurie Macfarlane
How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
Debunking the failed paradigm of traditional economics.
Nick Hanauer
Economic Man vs. Humanity: A Puppet Rap Battle
Challenging outdated economics with rap and puppetry.
Kate Raworth
How Hedge Fund Activists Prey on Companies
When corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends.
Shin Jang-Sup
Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and David Sloan Wilson
Evolutionary theory meets artificial intelligence and the management of algorithms.
Tim O'Reilly
Where in the World Is It Easiest to Get Rich?
The economy is not a zero-sum game: why Scandinavia is a better place to fulfill the American dream.
Harold Eia
Four Definitions of Money. All Correct.
Understanding what we mean by the most important word in economics.
Steve Roth
The Tragedy of the Healthcare Data Commons
Once the system can discriminate on a multitude of data points, the commons collapses.
John Battelle
Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders
A conversation about the Business for Peace Award with Per Saxegaard.
Per L. Saxegaard
How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths
Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths but when we make investing decisions we often act as if we are.
Lynn Stout
Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize or Academy Award?
When economic theory is a tower of babel.
Nicholas Gruen
A New Way to Think About Solving the World’s Biggest Problems
How to build global cooperation. It’s SIMPOL!
John Bunzl and Nick Duffell
How Changing My Economic Model Made Me a Climate Change Optimist
Neo-classical economics doesn’t offer useful insights for disruption.
Anthony Patt
Capital’s Share of Income Is Way Higher than You Think
Almost half of households’ market income is received for just being wealthy: owning stuff.
Steve Roth
The Economics Debate: The Problem isn’t Bad Economics, It’s Bad Science
The argument between orthodox economists and their critics resembles one that occurred in weather forecasting in the mid-nineteenth century.
David Orrell
The American Healthcare System Shows Why We Can’t Trust Free Market Ideologues
It’s critical that we inject more realism into economic creeds.
Jag Bhalla
New Ecological Economics: Superorganism and Ultrasociality
How the agricultural revolution changed the trajectory of our social and economic evolution.
Lisi Krall
Three Cheers for Financial Repression
Truth told, it’s more like financial liberation.
Tom Streithorst
How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes
A middle path between laissez faire and centralized planning.
David S. Wilson, Peter Barnes
How Hunter-Gatherers May Hold the Key to our Economic Future
We need to rethink our relationships with the workplace.
James Suzman
Why New Economics Needs a New Invisible Hand
The New Invisible Hand suggests the existence of a middle path.
David Sloan Wilson
Monopoly Now Wants You to Cheat—Just Like Real Capitalists
America’s favorite board game is reflecting the economy we live in.
Nick Cassella
Basic Math Shows How the Corporate Tax Cut Gives a Quantum Boost to Inequality
Why would the bottom 80% of the U.S. income and wealth distributions put up with this?
Louis Putterman
Neoliberalism: How Seeing Markets as Perfect Turned into an Ideology Justifying Crony Capitalism
You can be pro-market and anti-neoliberal.
Simon Wren-Lewis
Is There Anything That Working Less Does Not Solve?
The solution to just about everything: Working less
Rutger Bregman
How to Create Collective Intelligence
Markets, science, and humanity don’t automatically generate solutions.
David Sloan Wilson
Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable
The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect.
Maia Szalavitz
