When writing a post on comment in the Guardian this afternoon, I realised that my glossary entry on financial capital was insufficient to encompass the
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The madness of financial capitalism
The Guardian published this headline today: It was followed by this crass commentary: It was a bumper year for stock markets globally and the surprise,
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Glossary entry: Financial capital
As part of my work on capital, which in turn contributes to my thinking on the politics of care, and how it must be defined,
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Glossary entry: Borrower of last resort
I promised a commentator here yesterday that I would explain the term ‘borrower of last resort’ by writing a new glossary entry on the issue.
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Economic questions: the Richard Feynman question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Care matters, after all
The Guardian noted a new report from IPPR yesterday. The IPPR report summary is long-winded. The Guardian summary is worth noting in that case and
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What is private equity up to?
The FT published an article yesterday in which they reported: Private equity firms sold companies to themselves at a record rate this year, making use
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Where we go next in 2026
2025 has been an extraordinary year for this channel. 30 million views. Hundreds of thousands of new subscribers. And, more importantly, a growing appetite for
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For how long is the pretence that we are a United Kingdom viable?
New polling data is out from Scotland. Party support there looks like this (and remember, in Scotland there is a form of proportional representation, so
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