Money Isn’t Everything
MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING. I collaborated on this piece for Perspectives, a magazine of the New Econimics Foundation. Read online here.
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The changing taste of food and drink traditions
Behind almost every tradition is a myth, and behind all traditions is the biggest myth of them all: that this is what our people have always done. But, of course, cuisines are always evolving and with food, “forever” simply means “as long as we can remember”…
ReadModern art: I could have done that… so I did
Be honest. If thinking “I could have done that” while walking around a contemporary art exhibition is the mark of a philistine, aren’t you a philistine, too? I know I am. Much as we may know that it’s not as easy as it looks to create a decent artwork, there are times when we come across something so simple, so unimpressive, and so devoid of technical merit that we just can’t help believing we could have done as well or better ourselves. What perhaps makes me unusual is not that I entertain such thoughts, but that I did go off and try doing it myself…
ReadThe social animal
Human beings are born social. We live in families, tribes and nations, and increasingly as part of an interconnected global community. The problem is that these groups make different and often competing demands on us. We may well be social animals but our habitats are changing, and we haven’t yet adapted to them.
ReadMove your money
Mutuals offer a realistic vision of a better society that we can create without a revolution, without even an alternative model to the market economy. Capitalism is not the problem, it’s the actors in the capitalist system.
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