Research within this field focuses on the following questions: How do non-mainstream approaches respond to the present neo-liberal economic model’s failure to ? Which economic strategies would help make societies more resilient and allow for inclusion, justice, and fairness? How can we foster a new economic system based on core human values?
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Why do some countries have more billionaires than others?
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Rethinking public ownership of capital: A new progressive view
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Social inequality in the evolution of human societies
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How the Soviet elite lost faith in socialism in the 1980s
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Wealth mobility: Implications for inequality
In recent decades, economic globalisation has led to an increased mobility of financial assets and...
Inequality in a non-capitalist economy
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Paradoxes of happiness
There is evidence that income and wealth inequalities are positively associated with happiness, as measured...
Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries
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How the Soviet elite lost faith in socialism in the 1980s
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Good and bad GDP: Output fall in transition economies and the dead rat effect
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China’s economic transformation
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The JCPOA and Iran’s economic future
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A flat tax is for a flat earth
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The two forms of capitalism: Developmentalism and economic liberalism
Capitalist societies will be either developmental or liberal depending on the way they deploy their...
Is the WTO relevant for India?
Pressure on less developed countries from an increasingly belligerent US has caused the recent WTO...
Will the next economic miracle happen in the Middle East?
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