Tag: economics

Jemma Appleby - Trebuchet

A Rich Body Of Data

17/08/2018

The flows and forms of MutualArt...

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Donald Trump

Let Loose the Orange Beast and Good Riddance to Capitalism

04/01/2018

The age of Reagan reaches its apogee in Donald Trump. Now, bring on the fall....

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Sex Sells: Colonising the Universal Commodity

30/10/2017

Institutional sexual arrogance will only stop when it stops being rewarded...

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Higher retirement age

Worked to Death: Does a Higher Retirement Age Really Save Money?

07/10/2017

As retirement age creeps up, the health of those close to retirement is getting worse ...

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Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do

28/09/2017

The city's pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now?...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

18/08/2017

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently...

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effects of money on thinking

How Does Money Affect Thought?

11/07/2017

Systematic research investigates effects of money on thinking, behavior ...

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Autonomous border-surveillance

Drones, or a Big Dumb Wall? Autonomous Border-Surveillance

07/07/2017

ngineers at the University of Arizona are designing an autonomous border-surveillance system that can collect, assess and act on data in real time...

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Benedict Drew

Something Nasty Trickles Down: Benedict Drew (Whitechapel Gallery)

19/06/2017

Exploring exactly what is falling from above in the trickle-down economy...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

15/06/2017

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

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sustainable music

Pay the Fiddler. When Can We Have Sustainable Music?

29/03/2017

Perhaps we need a sea change in culture, where art and artists come to be valued once again. ...

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papa che by Dan Booth

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

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suicide platform

Brudging the Issue With the EU Referendum

31/08/2016

We keep getting what we deserve and we never ask why. ...

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Something You Didn’t Know About the Lipstick Index

24/07/2016

Cosmetic therapy: The link between makeup and a down economy ...

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Economic Growth Figures Looking Flat? Blame Witchcraft!

10/05/2016

American University study claims that witchcraft beliefs impede economic progress and disrupt social relations...

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Safe, money, metaphor

After the Revolution, Beyond the Randian Superhero.

10/03/2016

Should we be grubbing for the favours of the benevolent altruist, or forging a fairer world for all? Essay on the false prophets of philanthropy...

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busking cat

How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide

08/03/2016

New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support ...

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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged620

Why the Size of Trump’s Hands Matters: Deconstructing the Randian Superman

05/03/2016

The business superman is Better Than You: examining Ayn Rand's construction of that most pertinent of myths...

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The Other One Percent. What Refugees Really Cost

19/12/2015

The fiscal impact of refugees in Sweden ...

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Republic of London? Cities Outperform Countries

23/11/2015

The economic significance of cities increases while that of countries falls ...

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mincer

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

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pipeline walking

Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis

25/07/2015

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal...

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money

If I ran the economy…

24/07/2015

The fact that our market is distorted enough that millions of working families now need state help to meet basic living costs is the problem. Not the ‘scroungers’ ...

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Money headed guy by Dan Booth

Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

18/07/2015

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

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Buy, consume, buy

So Why Do These Tears Fall at Night? The Sad Side of Success

23/01/2015

Consumers who use products to boost their sense of self-worth tend to dwell on their shortcomings ...

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decision by freedigitalhotos.net/Jeroen van Oostrom

Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism

07/06/2014

In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots....

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An illustration by Dan Booth

Sedition and The 1%

31/05/2014

An inhuman system that has come to stand for little but the empty perpetuation of itself...

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Official Portrait of Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Office

In Defence of Iain Duncan Smith

05/04/2014

It is time to mount a defence of one the most hated figures in British politics - Iain Duncan Smith ...

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David Cameron official photo

Tory Scum and Proud

26/10/2013

Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won't See on Channel 5...

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Britain is Booming?

14/09/2013

A real world recession for the majority is applauded as a recovery, when all that is recovered are the profits for transnational corporations, and incomes of high earners, most of whom pay little or...

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