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Not many of us would see a calculator as a threat to our jobs. Yet just as the development of these now ubiquitous tools disquieted some mathematicians, rapid advances in…
It's easy to blame “Brussels bureaucrats” but national governments are often the biggest corporate lobbyists of all, a new report exposes today.
Do you know why your phone bill is…
Is austerity a ‘dream come true’ for neoliberals, or did the global financial crisis force policymakers to question neoliberalism’s core principles and change direction? Focusing…
Amy Janzwood and Caitlin Scott explain why food companies have committed to science-based targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and argue that the unique challenges of…
This is an article from The Conversation's Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates.
Arturo Bris: Have you ever watched…
There aren’t many corners of the world left untouched by humanity. Recent research has highlighted that just 23% of the planet’s land surface (excluding Antarctica) and…
Previously unknown recording reveals extraordinary ‘black ops’ on three continents – exploiting weaknesses in democracies left wide open by governments and Silicon Valley. A new…
The World Economic Forum's Agenda blog on 8 stories form Davos.
1. ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’
That was Sir David Attenborough's…
Peter Bloom on what Davos might look like if it was serious about addressing climate change.
From the moment world leaders claiming to want to fight climate change arrived in…
Following the introduction of Oxfam’s new Davos Report on From Poverty to Power, one of its authors, Max Lawson, reflects on the links between inequality and public…
The post-1945 income distribution system is irretrievably broken, threatening the market economy. And traditional redistributive tools such as direct taxes, collective bargaining…
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer. Nicholas Shaxson. Bodley Head. 2018.
In The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer, …
As global leaders gather at the World Economic Forum to discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues, including inequality and poverty, many will share data to illustrate a…
Jacopo Scita critically examines the state of China-Iran relations in the occasion of the third anniversary of Xi Jinping’s visit to Tehran in the aftermath of the JCPOA…
People shouldn’t be forced to choose between eating well, and eating in an environmentally conscious way.
The ‘planetary health diet' was announced yesterday by an…