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Quoted in Moneyweek
19 Nov 2017Moneyweek has quoted my Financial Times book review published in March.
- Tags: book, media appearances, review
Debating growth on BBC
5 Nov 2017I was recently on Newshour Extra on the BBC World Service discussing ‘Do we need economic growth?‘
- Tags: economics, growth, media appearances, radio
Battle of Ideas reminder
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21 Oct 2017A reminder that I will be debating “Silicon Valley: from heroes to zeroes” at the Battle of Ideas in London next weekend. Do come along to the whole event.
- Tags: America, economics, inequality, speeches, technology
Studying the Power Elite
20 Oct 2017My Financial Times review of William Domhoff’s Studying the Power Elite looks at the historical discussion of political power in America. Should wealthy individuals have a greater say in the running of modern democratic societies than other citizens? The official answer nowadays is, arguably, no. In the early days of the US, however, voting was […]
- Tags: America, book, inequality, media appearances, review
Utopie für Pessimisten – text
19 Oct 2017Here belatedly is the full text of my article published in German in Novo on 2 October. It is in turn a translation of an article from spiked. Ein neues Buch präsentiert das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen als utopische Vision. In Wahrheit hätte es die Verarmung der Bevölkerung zur Folge. Das Buch „Utopie für Realisten“ von Rutger […]
- Tags: book, Germany, inequality, review, spiked
Utopie fuer Pessimisten
2 Oct 2017Delighted that Novo magazine has published a German translation of my recent spiked review of Utopia for Realists. I will upload the text in a few days.
Tuesday talk reminder
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22 Sep 2017A reminder that I’ll be talking on “Who really runs the UK?” in Shoreditch this coming Tuesday evening. Hope you can come along.
- Tags: Britain, inequality, speeches
Battle of Ideas debate
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10 Sep 2017I will be speaking on Silicon Valley from Heroes to Zeroes on the second day of the weekend Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28-29 October. Come along to the whole event if you can.
- Tags: America, inequality, speeches, technology
Israelkritik als Judenhass
10 Sep 2017On 7 September Novo magaine published a German translation of my spiked essay on Israel and anti-semitism. Seit dem Sechstagekrieg gilt Israel vielen Kritikern als Apartheidsstaat. Die Obsession mit israelischer Politik befördert Antisemitismus. Vor 50 Jahren erlitt die arabische Welt ein schweres Trauma. Im Juni 1967 hatte der winzige Staat Israel in nur sechs Tagen […]
- Tags: Germany, Israel, media appearances, Middle East
Latest FT book review
5 Sep 2017My review of James Montague’s The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners was published by the Financial Times last Friday (1 September). In The Wire, the acclaimed US television crime drama, Detective Lester Freamon says: “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money […]
- Tags: book, Britain, inequality, media appearances, review
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