Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, one thing has taken centre stage when it comes to economic recovery: job creation. It is under this…
The headlong rush into economic progress has made almost everyone in developed nations happy, healthy and contented. Consumerism has delivered all the stuff that everybody…
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Eliane Glaser is a Guardian writer, a lecturer and broadcaster. Her interest in ideology and propaganda has led her to critique the current faltering economic…
From Robert McNamara’s 1995 book “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam”
On this episode of Meet the Renegades, Ross Ashcroft welcomes Christian Felber - author, lecturer and founder of the Economy for the Common Good.
From Aristotle to Adam Smith economics was a school of thought based on Natural Laws and philosophy. How come we have strayed so far from our roots? What really has the Mont Pelerin Society got to do with Reaganomics and Thatcherism?
In the first episode of our new podcast series Thinking Differently, Ross Ashcroft speaks to Oscar winning filmmaker and educator Lord David Puttnam.
Despite their bed-hopping antics, the most important legacy of the Bloomsbury Group is what can be achieved by people who are prepared to challenge convention in pursuit of a better world, argues Mark Braund.
Making a job, not taking a job means so much more than simply turning your back on employment and setting up on your own. It is more a way of life, a new distinctive multiple income stream lifestyle. It requires a new way of thinking, and not relying on big business or government to put our best interests first.
Oscar winning filmmaker and educator Lord David Puttnam is one of the guests on our ‘Meet the Renegades’ podcast series. His career and life have…
The following books have inspired our thinking for the Four Horsemen film and our Survival Manual book.
Steve Keen Interview - Part 5: The UK’s business like approach to education leaves very little room for innovation. How do we shift the focus from…
Recently we were told about a secret project. A group of wealthy benefactors decided that the modern targets based education wasn’t for them or their…
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Current best practices in risk management work only when correlations are stable. At turning points historical relationships between assets breakdown. The only way to effectively…
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Since they first appeared in the New Testament, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have ridden roughshod into the consciousness of every generation. They remain…
Ross Ashcroft talks to George Cooper, author of Money, Blood & Revolution. In the book he suggests that the economics profession is itself in a…
What we have ignored is what citizens can do with the importance of real involvement - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Elinor Ostrom
Many people instinctively know that something is seriously wrong with the economy. Long before the historic events of 2008 things were far from good, especially…
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
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Since the financial crisis that struck in 2008, the failings of the banking system have been laid bare for all to see. But, four years…
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Since the advent of agriculture, and the realization by certain people that control over land is the surest route to political power, all human societies…
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If the very workings of the economic system are denying people the opportunity to take responsibility for their own wellbeing, is it any wonder that…
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Poverty is blighting the lives of millions of people, and the environmental crisis is already making things worse. As with poverty, our failure to tackle…
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Haven’t we been here before? Three centuries ago philosophers began to address these questions in the movement known as the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant described it…
Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones that direct our economies and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favours, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?
Elizabeth Warren
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Over centuries, systems have been subtly modified, manipulated and sometimes purposefully corrupted to better serve the interests of the few. Each time Enlightenment ideals have…
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As Gillian Tett of The Financial Times observes, “Most societies have an elite and the elite try to stay in power; and the way they…
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Former World Bank chief economist Josef Stiglitz discusses the false assumptions of what leads to economic efficiency.
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This book does not call for a lurch back to the left, however. If politics is to be of any use in facing down the…
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There is nothing to be gained from blaming bankers, politicians or even economists for the current crisis. They flatter themselves if they think they created…