Inequality

Sociologist and thinker reinvents the institutions of the liberal global order. Fly through a 30-year rescue of social rights and the environment from the ravages of unbridled globalisation.

A comic on European basic income and what it meant for one family among millions.

An interview on daring to dream and designing economics to regenerate life and community, to thrive rather than to grow.

Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered a long-overdue discussion on the downsides of international trade. What is the green response?

Drawing on the experience of the Alaskan oil fund, this interview unpicks the links between basic income and ecological sustainability.

As the Finnish experiment draws to a close, social policy expert Heikki Hiilamo explains what’s next for basic income in Finland.

Richard Florida’s critical assessment of inequality within and between cities diagnoses the problem, but fails to offer real answers.

Growing inequality has become a hallmark of many cities. For this reviewer, Richard Florida’s latest book is a worrying prescription for more of the same.

With global production pushing the planet past its limits, a shift from growth to sufficiency in rich countries is now an imperative

In order to evade another economic earthquake similar to or even bigger than the Greek crisis and to reinstate the trust in the Euro, the European Central Bank (ECB) took extraordinary measures to boost growth, raise inflation and indirectly lower the indebtedness of the Eurozone Member States: they started the Quantitative Easing (QE) program.