I watched Oppenheimer last night, not for the first time. And not for the first time, this exchange stood out: Niels Bohr: Algebra’s like sheet
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Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and
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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 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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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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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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I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary at the request of some commentators. I stress that in an area as complex as this,
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Burnout is not a personal failure. It is the result of an economic system that steals time, daylight and energy from our lives. In this
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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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