Economy
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What’s Tomorrow Worth?
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Through forestry, finance, and Chilean mining law, ‘Discounting the Future’ uncovers the far-reaching political consequences of valuing tomorrow through economics.
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Trade Unionism, Political Power, and the Future of Organised Labour in Italy
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In Conversation with Luca Stanzione, General Secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (Camera Generale del Lavoro, CGIL) of Milan.
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Rethinking Inequality: Branko Milanovic on Capitalism’s Contradictions
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Milanovic’s latest essay collection X-rays the global capitalist system, mapping the contradictions that threaten to pull it apart.
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Too Sick and Tired to Bowl Alone? Loneliness, Inequality, and Health
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Loneliness isn’t just emotional—it’s structural.
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AI’s Material Infrastructure: An Urban Planning Challenge for the Digital Age
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AI is only as competent or equitable as its supporting infrastructure. A reimagining of cities and space is needed.
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Economic Courting Game in Southeast Asia: Can the United States Keep Pace?
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Despite the calls for the US to adopt an all-out economic strategy amid China’s increasing influence in Southeast Asia, there are weak incentives for Washington to do so.
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Economic and Political Implications of Extending Daylight Saving Time
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Dorkina Myrick discusses the economic and political implications of the recent proposal to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent.
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How Unrestrained Financial Power Dragged Lebanon into the Abyss
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Millions of Lebanese people have been pushed into poverty as the country’s economy has been devastated by the collapse of its currency, hyperinflation, and mass unemployment.
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“Growing the Labour Force Doesn’t Just Require Increasing the Retirement Age”: Prof. Jane Gingrich on Pension Reforms and the Politics of Education
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The Oxford Political Review sat down with Gingrich earlier this year to discuss the global landscape of education policies today, the sharp political divisions in society around the welfare state, and some of the broader changes and crises in our political economy.
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“Green Growth is Incredibly Dangerous and Deeply Morally Irresponsible”: Kate Raworth on the Need for a Post-Growth World
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For Raworth, what’s problematic about mainstream economics is the framing of the market as the center of our economic thinking. To her, it is a deliberately political move, placing price as the metric of concern above others.