Inequality

The pandemic has reconfigured the way we use and think about urban space. Will it be sufficient for a fairer, healthier city to emerge?

Building shock-resistant societies calls for a break with capitalist logic to propose solutions that prioritise wellbeing while factoring in ecological limits.

Celebrated economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that the opponents of growth are focused on the wrong target. The real problem is the kind of growth.

Still to be ratified, the EU-Mercosur agreement could entrench centuries-old inequality between the two regions, as well as threaten the planet.

The Green Deal needs a nuanced approach which recognises the historical roots of today’s inequalities.

In the USA, the inequality and climate crises are increasingly seen as one and the same and the Left has seized on the Green New Deal as the answer.

Human rights and neoliberalism both rose to prominence in the last decades of the 20th century, but what is the relationship between the two?

Interest in basic income is growing in Scotland and across the United Kingdom. Can we expect trials from the Scottish government and where might the momentum lead?

A conversation on how to rework the political economy to end inequality and challenge the “business as usual” attitude of the EU and Italy’s ruling classes.

In the first of a three-part series, we look at how blind optimism must be replaced by a societal debate in which technological advances are held accountable.