President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists ...

Branko Milanovic: ‘The forces of self-interest and technology cannot be undone’ Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. You can find his articles here: ...

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Neoliberalism isn’t just another political buzzword — it’s the ideology that reshaped the global economy. From the deregulation and market‑first policies of the 1980s to today’s gig economy, this ...

Whether or not human cultures can persist without divination is debatable, since it seems no culture on record has gone without some form of it (Curry, 2010: 1). Yet divination’s role is highly ...

Like a lot of people who like to know what’s going on in the world I spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks trying to understand what was going on in the UK, where finally, on Thursday, the ...

Margaret Thatcher on tv, 1990. Flickr/ R Barraez D'Lucca. Some rights reserved.In a leader published in December, the Blairite pressure group Progress took aim at a ...

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“Neoliberalism” has been a hot topic for a few decades, but by now the word is sloppily used often enough that many claim that the word has become meaningless. However, it doesn’t work that way. The ...

Remember the days of Occupy Wall Street? In September of 2011, activists descended on the Wall Street area of Manhattan to protest rising economic inequality and the controlling role that money was ...