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Work dominates many of our lives, often in ways that are detrimental to our health and well-being.
Today’s youth are increasingly rejecting capitalism.
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The recent March for Our Lives showed just how unsatisfied American youth are with their leaders. Recent polls suggest the economic system may be the next item on their agenda.
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Slacktivism won’t cut it in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Earth has limited resources, so we can’t keep using them up. We need to look post-growth.
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Crypto billionaires enjoy their Caribbean playground but poorer locals with little knowledge of the tech are excluded.
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“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
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Wealth managers are playing an increasing role in determining what social causes are funded and how.
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There is enormous pressure on young people to strive, perform and achieve. And the data indicate that many are struggling to cope.
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The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
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Putting money into the hands of local communities will be a more useful antidote to the whims of world capitalism.
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Stranger Things 2 finds its monsters in Reagan-era capitalism. It is required viewing for socialists this Halloween.
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Governments gently cajoling people towards better life choices is only one side of the nudge theory.
Blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in 2010. The losses produced by polluting companies should cost as ‘negative’ for a country’s growth.
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A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.
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“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
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We need to work out how to save capitalism from itself.
The Warhol exhibition inspired thousands of selfies at the opening.
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The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.
‘Radical economic transformation’ in South Africa needs to move beyond rhetoric.
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South Africa’s governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.
In Cuba, unlike in many Latin American countries, when you see children on the street, they’re not begging; they’re playing. And therein lies Castro’s dilemma: how to reform Cuba’s stagnant economy without losing what’s working?
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Cuba won’t tolerate the high social costs paid by China and Vietnam in their shift to market capitalism, but its economy desperately needs a reboot.
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From Winston Churchill to the Industrial Strategy Commission: laying down the markers for success.
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Differences in attitudes toward globalisation makes cooperation between the world’s leading economies extremely difficult.