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08 August 2017
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel. William Heinemann. 2017. In The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions,…
08 August 2017
Writing ahead of the recent summit, Dani Rodrik explains how leaders fail to explain to the benefits of free trade to domestic audiences. This year’s G20 summit in Hamburg…
07 August 2017
Learning throughout life makes sense. Research shows it is good for your health, your wealth, your civic engagement and your family’s future prospects. It prolongs your…
07 August 2017
A meditation on the ‘millennials’ and several of the discussions at Team Syntegrity 2017.     I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,…
04 August 2017
Branko Milanovic weighs in on the current rise of the idea of ‘illiberal democracies’. The term “illiberal democracy” was, I think, introduced by Fareed…
04 August 2017
In a new book of interviews with C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky discusses capitalism, US imperialism, Black Lives Matter, the refugee crisis and cracks in the European Union, the…
03 August 2017
The UK’s decision to vote for Brexit has been viewed by many observers as proof that the European Union suffers from a deep crisis of legitimacy. As Matt Wood …
03 August 2017
Tristan Kenderdine calls for better tools to analyze China’s growing economic influence.  Trade agreements between nation states usually create state-to-state…
02 August 2017
David Held, GP’s General Editor, explores social, economic and political understandings of evolution in a lecture recently delivered at Durham University.   …
02 August 2017
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent. As African feminists, we face multiple…