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‘One Planet’ Cities: Sustaining Humanity Within Planetary Limits by David Thorpe. London: Routledge 2019. 308 pp., £120 hardcover 9781138615090, £36.99 paperback 9781138615106…
Duncan Green summarises some of the findings form the long running Developmental Leadership Program (DLP).
The DLP is an intriguing research initiative, which I’ve been loosely…
Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. Lisa Duggan. University of California Press. 2019.
In Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, Lisa Duggan offers a new thesis…
“Markets did not see [the first deglobalisation] coming. And at the risk of being a Cassandra, I wonder if they aren’t just as oblivious to what is happening today with the US and…
Christian Borch on why understanding how algorithms behave in crowds may be vital for our prosperity and safety.
In 2019, the world fretted that algorithms now know…
Just before Christmas, Nicholas Barr (LSE) was asked by a 16-year old what he thought about Brexit and how it would affect members of Generation Z personally. In this letter, he…
Linda Slapakova explores how and why NATO continues to exist in the post-Cold War international system.
In the prelude to the NATO summit in London commemorating the 70th…
Jason Hickel explores how the voting systems at the WB & IMF contribute to the perpetuation of global inequality.
In my research I have argued that rising global inequality is…
The first part of this essay outlined several major concerns regarding nuclear threats that have emerged in the new century, with a focus on Pakistan and India. In Part 2, we take…
The road to sustainability is paved with human rights.
Without a habitable planet there are no humans and, consequently, no human rights. And to make the planet habitable, we need…