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Glossary entry: Rent
Rent is income derived from the ownership or control of a scarce asset rather than from productive effort or risk-taking. It arises when someone can
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Economic questions: the Thorstein Veblen question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have
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This is no minor war. Its ramifications will reverberate for a very long time
As the Guardian has reported: Donald Trump’s call for allies to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz to protect commercial shipping vessels and unblock
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The problem with employee share ownership schemes
I was asked recently to discuss employee share ownership schemes. This was my response: The idea that employee share ownership can transform capitalism rests on
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The magic money sword: why money works like honours
After a week in which I can fairly describe work as being hard because of the fatigue I felt last weekend, which it now turns
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Who wins from this war?
The FT has an article this morning that notes: US oil companies stand to receive a windfall of more than $60bn this year if crude
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Farage is going nowhere
As the FT has noted in an article this morning, referring to a rally that Nigel Farage held in Swindon on Thursday: Farage told the
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Review: Capitalism – A Global History
Regular reader Rob Gray sent me this review of Sven Beckert’s new global history of capitalism, which I thought worth sharing. I have undertaken the
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