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While the Great Depression reduced inequality and closed the racial wealth gap, the Great Recession of 2009 did the opposite.
Philanthropy in the form of financial donations is not a solution to the natural disasters caused by climate change. A new philanthropy of social change is needed.
Philip Pullman’s call for a boycott against the new 50p coin is just the latest Oxford comma controvery.
Over the last 35 years, the number of Americans who have moved has steadily declined to nearly half of their previous levels.
The famous director is receiving an honorary Oscar, and the timing couldn’t be more appropriate.
Libra has lost seven of its 28 founding members – but don’t expect that to hold it back.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
The color of American money goes back to the British colonies.
A complex set of factors influence how African footballers make financial decisions about the money they earn abroad.
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
Alarm bells should ring over a global currency that is run by an exclusive club that serves its investor-owners, not the public good.
Why do even the rich cheat on their taxes? Roesearch suggests some people may be genetically predisposed to break the rules for their own financial gain.
The US hit the debt ceiling in March and is expected to run out of ways to get around the new $22 trillion limit by September. An economist explains why the ceiling is a dysfunctional relic.
Most people follow some form of moral code, but to what extent they abide by these rules does differ in various situations.
Plenty of Western officials and media outlets have criticized Libra – but it’s not meant for them.
Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.
Facebook claims its new cryptocurrency will bring financial inclusion and opportunity to billions, pushing cash further to the fringes. Is that a good thing?
The Fed is in a tricky position as it signals it may soon cut interest rates to boost the economy, which also risks spurring runaway inflation and even an economic downturn.
Happiness may well be a choice, but it is a difficult choice. And much that might make that choice a little easier depends on the choices of influential others.
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Honorary Research Associate at the Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling
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Professor of Innovation Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow in Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financialization, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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