Finance – Sublime

Money is Dead

John Wood — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:53:40 +0000

Numerical Flatland Many blame capitalism for the extinctions that are hastening climate breakdown. But political discussions can easily reduce ecological complexities to a few human-centred dimensions. We have had several hundred years since the French began to align everyone along the narrow axis of ‘left’ and ‘right’. More recently, algorithms became trendy, so mainstream economists...

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Stupid Economics

Katrine Carstens — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:31:30 +0000

It was the early 1980s, and the mud in the slum of a rural town in Peru was ankle-deep. Berkeley-educated German-Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef stood, soaked, across from a local man in the pouring rain. He found that his expensive education had provided him with no language capable of describing the experience of that moment...

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Ten Sure Ways to Save Money

Laura Santamaria — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Many tens of thousands of people have changed their lives in small and large ways using the tools featured in Your Money or Your Life. Phrases like ‘Money is life’s energy’ and ‘No shame no blame’ and ‘Gazingus Pin’ have entered the culture. Sublime extracts 10 tips from this pioneering and visionary best seller to...

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I Spend, Therefore I Am

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:58:08 +0000

I Spend Therefore I Am is a truly revelatory analysis of the way that a certain kind of economic thinking – that which puts self-interest at its centre – has invaded most aspects of our daily lives, from the way we make personal decisions to how we view reality and what we consider of value...

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The Wild Economist

Laura Santamaria — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:34:20 +0000

In 2006, Mark Boyle reached a crossroads. The Irishman had spent six years studying economics so knew pretty much everything there was to know about consumers, corporations, networks and nations. Or did he? Despite the years of intense study, he had a niggling feeling that he was missing something. ‘In six years of studying economics,...

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The Democracy Project

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:44:41 +0000

Image: Darwin Yamamoto By Christmas it was all over, the camps cleared and local laws changed to ban camping in public places. Phrases like ‘the 99%’ have entered the public imagination, but was anything actually achieved? What did it all mean, both then and now? ‘Enough time has passed‘ thinks David Graeber, ‘that we can...

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Winner Take All

Naz K Rasmussen — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:25:22 +0000

China’s economy only grew 7.8% in 2012, its lowest in 13 years, a stark contrast to Europe’s negative growth in the same period. As if that weren’t enough, the superpower is set to surpass America as the biggest economy on Earth around 2025. China’s ‘peaceful rise’, coined by the Communist Party to describe its foreign policy, has...

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Shale gas: Saviour or dangerous diversion?

Viki Johnson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It’s strange to think that 30 years ago, geologists failed to rouse even a flicker of interest from the then ‘Department of Energy’ on their discovery of extensive shale gas resources in the UK. A decade later, in 1995, the British Geological Survey also noted the potential of UK shale gas production. But again, bureaucrats and...

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Cancel The Apocalypse

Viki Johnson — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:33:42 +0000

Anxiety of an impending apocalypse has gripped humanity through the ages with curious consistency. Whether spiritual or religious, the musings of a madman or the tendency for humans to overestimate risk of unlikely but potentially catastrophic events; history is beset with apocalyptic prophecies and expectations. Cancel the Apocalypse, the latest book by author and campaigner...

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Infinite Returns

Viki Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:20:01 +0000

Over the past four years, a string of bank bail-outs, mis-selling scandals, billion dollar losses by ‘rogue’ traders, and most recently the manipulation of a key interest rate, LIBOR, have left consumers searching for an alternative to the major high-street banks. Groups such as ‘Move Your Money’ have emerged with the goal of guiding concerned...

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