If we are serious about the economy, building a better future, we need to own up, acknowledge and address division. Division is economically and socially corrosive. The battles include young vs old, homeowner vs those aspiring, haves vs have-nots, landlord vs renter, rural vs urban, Māori vs non-Māori, respect/disrespect for the law and business owners…
In New Zealand it’s the TPU (all their astro-turf-one-person-PR-pimping sock puppets)…
The financialisation of psychedelics is going to set the whole field back, long term, almost as muc has banning the substances. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has reversed course on its long-held commitment to retain full ownership of its pharmaceutical development arm. On Jan. 5, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) announced that…
How Airbnb is being supplanted by the twentieth-century relic known as the hotel is a good lesson in capitalism. In particular, it’s a reminder to ignore perennial promises that new market innovations will reform capitalism so that it works equally for corporations and everyone else. … But crowd-based capitalism, as it turns out, is just…
Naomi Oreskes is a historian of science at Harvard University. Erik M. Conway works as a historian at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Together they have just published “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.” We’ve talked a lot on this program about the failures of neoclassical…