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End the US Census: Is This the Republicans ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Moment?

Unemployment rates, population data and gross domestic product (GDP) – I’m no economist but the collection of this sort of information seems rather important. Well, not according to some Republican Congressmen in the Un...

by Trudy McIntosh

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Money and Speed is the New Green

Chocolate, wine, sleep, sex: How would you react if these comforting pleasures were to be sapped from your life? If we truly value the good things in life, then why are we sacrificing the warming blaze of the sun, the life affi...

by Gustav Isherwood

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Anyone for alphabet soup? A guide to Asia-Pacific regionalism

ASEAN, APEC, EAS, ARF, SAARC, PIF, ASEAN+3, AEC, ASEM, CAEC, AEM, CAREC, SCO, PBEC, PECC, SPT. Is this a bad version of scrabble? Or a random jumble of unrelated letters? No. In fact, these are just some of the many regional in...

by Trudy McIntosh

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Crisis Response in Developed Countries – The Right Way To Do It

Since the global financial crisis hit in 2007, most developed countries have tried to put in place measures to overcome its effects. From ignoring its existence to stating that there is nothing to worry about, governments have ...

by Codrin Paveliuc-Olariu

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WATCH: Putting Water Back in Public Hands

Defenders of privatisation argue that by opening a market to multiple suppliers who then compete to attract customers, you can reduce prices and improve product quality. But as any business student knows, markets don’t always...

by Richard Scott-Jones

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A New Internationalism is Needed

There is much discussion over whether or not globalisation has actually happened, and how much effect it has had on reducing the sovereignty of states. I take it to be a rather reasonable belief that a measure of globalisation ...

by Miguel Costa Matos

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Privatise the Costs of Bank Failure

We are living in startling times in the European Union. For the past three years, Angela Merkel has used Germany’s large voting power within European institutions to force through an agenda of collective impoverishment fo...

by Miguel Costa Matos

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Banks: Now Even More Central

This past week has only reinforced the idea that central banks are becoming increasingly active in trying to halt the slide towards stagnation in several major economies. This is because their nations’ fiscal policy remai...

by Matthew Campsie

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Coffee strikers, economic transformation and the juxtaposition of social powers in Colombia

The coffee industry in Colombia was one of the principal engines for the development of the country in the last century. The legacy of coffee is significant for the country, being the world’s biggest exporter of coffee for al...

by Joseph Alejandro Martínez Salinas

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End the US Census: Is This the Republicans ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Moment?

Money and Speed is the New Green

Anyone for alphabet soup? A guide to Asia-Pacific regionalism

Crisis Response in Developed Countries – The Right Way To Do It

WATCH: Putting Water Back in Public Hands

A New Internationalism is Needed

Privatise the Costs of Bank Failure

Banks: Now Even More Central

Coffee strikers, economic transformation and the juxtaposition of social powers in Colombia

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