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What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
Raymond W. Baker says the estimated hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden wealth a decade ago has skyrocketed to trillions today.
How can Generation Z serve as effective agents of economic reform in a system they don’t believe in?
The treasurer has outlined a blueprint for an economy that will solve problems while still looking after the people at its centre. And despite the detractors, there is much to be said for it.
The Menu’s real horror comes from the ways food, eating, and cooking lose their carnal pleasures under capitalism.
Prices are up to five times higher than the raw costs of production for many of the goods and services we all need.
Equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being used to obtain status and financial benefit. It’s the very antithesis of EDI as a tool for democratic and equitable citizenship.
‘Late capitalism’ is referenced in books, articles and as a trending meme. But what are the origins of the term – and what does it describe?
Labour’s share of national income has declined since the 1970s, but there is no sense of any permanent trend.
The absence of norms defining the common good and the insufficient place of scientific arguments in the democratic debate weaken the capacity of liberalism to face global threats.
We don’t really know how much companies care about the environment.
What if the best parts of two competing visions for a solution were brought together?
Social protection on its own doesn’t shift the dial. Radical economic policies are needed to tackle poverty and inequality.
A range of films spanning different eras confronts viewers with the same question: ‘What if all that hard work isn’t really worth it?’
Douglas Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest is less about tech billionaires and their ‘bonkers’ escape plans than it is an entertaining primer on the various ills of late capitalism.
In B.C., residential school principals sat on public school boards, and some Indigenous children even attended public schools. Understanding such links matters for truth and reconciliation.
The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
Organizers across the US are finding innovative grassroots strategies for helping people thrive. Many of these ventures emphasize working together as part of communities and collective systems.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand
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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, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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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, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Organizations; Social & Environmental Enterprises, UMass Amherst
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