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High levels of inequality damage our health, harm social cohesion and act as a brake on economic performance.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don't share, writes one historian, is the label 'liberal.'
A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits. Even the Business Roundtable agrees.
Barbuda's recovery is deliberately slow as neighbouring Antigua wants to develop the island's tourism.
Liberal democracy is in trouble, and the seeds of its demise can be found in the property rights so cherished by so-called liberals generations ago.
The current system drives social injustice and environmental destruction, a new approach to address both is called for.
From Ford to Facebook, companies have long used benefits to mold employee behavior – even incentivizing the 'right' kind of lifestyle.
Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
How can the climate strikers' demands of system change be met?
JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
Almost one-third of countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. Their bad behavior poses a threat to real democracies, as the United States recently learned.
The sharing economy is often romanticised as a shift away from the evils of capitalism to a more communal and socially conscious way of life. But is this simply clever marketing?
The average consumerist suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. But what if affluent suburbanites and battlers alike ditch the rat race and embrace economic 'degrowth'? Here's how it might unfold.
Britain – and many other countries – is facing an acute care crisis that is inextricably linked to the entrenchment of neoliberalism.
Valuing nature is hardly natural.
Brexit is a looming crisis but the ensuing chaos is an opportunity to create a radical alternative vision for the UK. Degrowth is the future we need.
The WWF's report avoids the C-word – here's why that matters.
Ensuring no industry becomes too big to fail can be achieved by changing the way companies are run. The aim is to develop a sustainable model for corporations.
To become a successful innovator, follow Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi and today's female social entrepreneurs -- focus on ideas and social value, not money.
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Research Fellow, University of Manchester
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Tutor, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, UNSW
