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Amartya Sen – work for which he won a Nobel-Memorial prize. The focus of development, Sen argues, should be on ‘advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live’.20 Instead of prioritising metrics like GDP, the aim should be to enlarge people’s capabilities – such as to be healthy, empowered a
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Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Lux Ed
A collection that highlights the increasing prevalence of luxury brand strategy in tertiary education.
Steve O'Farrell and • 21 cards
The dominant regime of political economy in the West since 1971, and particularly acute since 2009, has been built on a set of related economic fallacies: There are no adverse consequences to manipulating the price and supply of money; economic well-being can be measured by increases in flows of revenue rather than the growth rate of profit over ca
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
Samir Chaudry • Big Time
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Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the