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A Rich Body Of Data
The flows and forms of MutualArt (read more)
economics
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Let Loose the Orange Beast and Good Riddance to Capitalism
The age of Reagan reaches its apogee in Donald Trump. Now, bring on the fall. (read more)
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Sex Sells: Colonising the Universal Commodity
Institutional sexual arrogance will only stop when it stops being rewarded (read more)
News
Worked to Death: Does a Higher Retirement Age Really Save Money?
As retirement age creeps up, the health of those close to retirement is getting worse (read more)
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Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do
The city’s pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now? (read more)
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Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right
In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently (read more)
News
How Does Money Affect Thought?
Systematic research investigates effects of money on thinking, behavior (read more)
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Drones, or a Big Dumb Wall? Autonomous Border-Surveillance
ngineers at the University of Arizona are designing an autonomous border-surveillance system that can collect, assess and act on data in real time (read more)
Art
Something Nasty Trickles Down: Benedict Drew (Whitechapel Gallery)
Exploring exactly what is falling from above in the trickle-down economy (read more)
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We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods
What deities should be placed before the God of Money? (read more)
Sound
Pay the Fiddler. When Can We Have Sustainable Music?
Perhaps we need a sea change in culture, where art and artists come to be valued once again. (read more)
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Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb
Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come (read more)
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Brudging the Issue With the EU Referendum
We keep getting what we deserve and we never ask why. (read more)
News
Something You Didn’t Know About the Lipstick Index
Cosmetic therapy: The link between makeup and a down economy (read more)
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Economic Growth Figures Looking Flat? Blame Witchcraft!
American University study claims that witchcraft beliefs impede economic progress and disrupt social relations (read more)
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After the Revolution, Beyond the Randian Superhero.
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 (read more)
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How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide
New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support (read more)
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Why the Size of Trump’s Hands Matters: Deconstructing the Randian Superman
The business superman is Better Than You: examining Ayn Rand’s construction of that most pertinent of myths (read more)
News
The Other One Percent. What Refugees Really Cost
The fiscal impact of refugees in Sweden (read more)
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Republic of London? Cities Outperform Countries
The economic significance of cities increases while that of countries falls (read more)
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Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops. (read more)
News
Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis
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 (read more)
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If I ran the economy…
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’ (read more)
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Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate
The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses. (read more)
News
So Why Do These Tears Fall at Night? The Sad Side of Success
Consumers who use products to boost their sense of self-worth tend to dwell on their shortcomings (read more)
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Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism
In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots. (read more)
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Sedition and The 1%
An inhuman system that has come to stand for little but the empty perpetuation of itself (read more)
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In Defence of Iain Duncan Smith
It is time to mount a defence of one the most hated figures in British politics – Iain Duncan Smith (read more)
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Tory Scum and Proud
Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won’t See on Channel 5 (read more)
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Britain is Booming?
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 no contributions back into the collective pot of the UK. (read more)