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Storyselling, unlike narration, attempts to eradicate uncertainty. It cannot perform the important task of imagining the future.
A new book, The Exhausted Earth, outlines how capitalism leads to burnout - for people and planet. But regenerative solutions are possible if people focus on interconnectedness, not isolation.
A world where the US has fewer allies would be an even more dangerous place.
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
Western hostility towards China reflects the grudging realization that the West may not be the pinnacle of achievement after all.
Argentina is already feeling the sting of its new president’s policies – but Javier Milei is pressing ahead with ever-more radical plans to overhaul the economy.
Argentine society is responding strongly to Javier Milei’s radical policies.
Corporate medicine is hijacking feminist narratives around empowerment and women’s rights to market technologies, tests and treatments that aren’t backed by evidence.
Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?
In his essays, Walter Benjamin sought to understand the nature of modernity. He drew on Marxism but was not contained by it, ranging across literature, art, popular culture, even Jewish mysticism.
What does capitalism do to our ability to connect with other people? Lydia Davis’ stories suggest it hollows out our words – but that the exaltation of the ordinary can connect us.
Traditional capitalists are still flourishing, but according to Yanis Varoufakis they are not driving the economy like they used to.
The Ukraine war’s impact on food insecurity is critical, but there is more to the picture. The main problem is that capitalism allows food and other basic needs to become precarious commodities.
An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
Multinational corporations can dictate how resources are allocated, territories are governed, and justice is defined.
Naomi Klein uses her frequent confusion with ‘doppelganger’ Naomi Wolf to spark an exploration of doubles, mirror-worlds, and the gulf between left and right.
Kieran Hurley’s new play treads the familiar debate of millennial precarity versus boomer affluence with verve and insight.
The outcomes of increased financial inclusion in Ghana have been mixed
Why it’s time to reconsider an idea that was popular with economists during the great depression.
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Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Organizations; Social & Environmental Enterprises, UMass Amherst
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Research Fellow, University of Manchester
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
