Business

What should the future of capitalism look like?

Should we retire labels like capitalism or socialism? Can we embrace the messy, uncategorizable economic reality? Two economists discuss

We humans

Books worth reading, as recommended by Bill Gates, Susan Cain and more…

At the end of 2014, find repose by exciting the mind. 52 of the world’s leading thinkers offer the books that inspired them and their work.

Business

Diaspora bonds coming to Kenya, and maybe Ghana

Economist Dilip Ratha discusses diaspora bonds in today’s talk.

Business

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” explained

Is the global economy accelerating toward a future that’s incompatible with democracy?

We humans

What does inequality do to our bodies and minds? A social psychologist and an epidemiologist discuss

Does money make you mean? Does lack of money make you sick? Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson and social psychologist Paul Piff discuss the human effects of economic and social inequality.

Science

An encounter with poachers in the Bahamas

For Mission Blue, the Ocean CREST Alliance reports on an unsettling encounter with illegal fishing in the protected fishing grounds of the Bahamas.

We humans

Ireland is the “goodest” country in the world? Oh c’mon. And other of this week’s comments

This week’s comments includes replies to Simon Anholt’s introduction of the Good Country Index, a thought on the purity of art (and how we have polluted it with money), and an argument for trusting our own intellectual selves.