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Contributor(s): Professor Lea Ypi, Professor Andrés Velasco | Ralph Miliband has written poignantly on the limits of parliamentary democracy. But are revolutions justified? Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that ...  Show more

Contributor(s): Professor Diane Coyle | Professor Coyle argues that the way we measure the economy—developed in the 1940s—no longer fits today’s realities. The outdated framework underpinning economic statistics distorts how policymakers understand and respond to the digital econ ...  Show more

Speaker(s): Professor Danny Dorling | When we think of economic inequality we tend to think of a trend that is ever rising and destined to continue rising; that is far from inevitable. There are many statistics today that point at Britain being at a peak of inequality. However, h ...  Show more

The Open University’s Martin Upton, Jonquil Lowe and Alan Shipman take a wider look at whether the rapidly increasing recovery of the world economic market is a bubble itself. 

Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism's policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. In Illusions of Progress, Br ...  Show more

The UK is lagging behind its peers in the Eurozone. Its per capita GDP trails that of France and Germany, and yet its housing and energy is scarcer and more expensive. A recent essay by Sam Bowman, co-authored with Ben Southwood and Samuel Hughes, argues that Britain has strug ...