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A Fast Way to Destroy An Economy: Let Monopolies Control it

Small may not necessarily be beautiful, but there are scientific reasons that big is often bad.

Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn

The Real Reason Stock Buybacks Are a Problem

Buybacks are a massive tax dodge for shareholders

Steve Roth

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Challenging outdated economics with rap and puppetry.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.

Harald 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

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