Reckoning with a colonial past

Does scientific, artistic or political brilliance translate into investing success? It’s a topical question with hedge funds today accused of sucking talent away from the rest of the economy. So, the FT’s Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth sat down with reporter Toby Nangle, who ...  Show more

Long before modern economics, rulers such as Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia grappled with a political problem that still haunts our economies today: when people’s debts grow faster than their ability to repay them, the entire economic system can start to crack. Hammurabi adopte ...  Show more

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and ...  Show more

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and ...  Show more

L’Afrique occidentale et centrale vit une contagion de coups d’Etat dans un climat anti-France très marqué. Dans « La Story », le podcast d’actualité des « Echos », Pierrick Fay et son invitée Niagalé Bagayoko analysent les raisons du basculement de pa ...

Listen to the full interview on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-audio-on-of-85896805

France is on fire after police were filmed shooting and killing unarmed 17-year-old ...