In deploring wealth, at least of the conspicuous kind, David Redshaw cites the UK in 1967 as a healthy example of a time and place without too much of it (“Veblen intended to satirise the rich”, ...

Income inequality has quadrupled over the past 20 years, in contrast to the egalitarian view many people have of Sweden. For about 80 of the last 100 years, Sweden has been ruled by a centre-left, ...

Artist Stephen Walter has a solo exhibition showcasing his intricate hand-drawn maps, including two of London and one that revisits Thomas More's fictional island state of Utopia. In addition to ...

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The late anthropologist on how an 18th-century Madagascan microstate provides a model for egalitarian living If you mainly know David Graeber as the anarchist activist and intellectual guru of the ...

Congrats on winning the Nobel Prize. In a recent interview, you castigated economic journalists like me for ignoring economic evidence and lauding the recent cut in corporate tax rates. To combat ...

In the 1950s, those who designed and built the man-made capital of Brasilia had dreamed of a city capable of offering a better life to its people. What remains of these ideals? Built for 500,000 ...