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Former Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, now Secretary General of the Club of Rome

Secretary General of the Club of Rome, Ian previously worked at the World Bank, including eight years as Vice President for Sustainable Development.

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Secretary General of the Club of Rome, Ian previously worked at the World Bank, including eight years as Vice President for Sustainable Development.

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Anatole Kaletsky

Owning the World
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Hilary Benn

Aid is not the Answer
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Tom Phillips

Defeating the Digital Oligopoly
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Stephen D. King

When the Money Runs Out
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The Gathering Storm - Part I
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Thomas Pogge

Betraying the Global Poor
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Adrian Walsh

The Moral Hazards of Money
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When the Winner Takes All
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The Unfounded Fear of Monopolies

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Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi

The Networks of Control
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Jonathan P. Allen

The Big Money and Digital Masterminds
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Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham

Virtual Monopolies and The Workers' Voice
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Catalonia vs Spain: The Philosophy Behind the News
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David Maclean

Can limitarianism save the world?
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Thomas R. Wells

The Death of the 9-5
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John Danaher

Why you should hate your job
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Guy Standing

The Universal Basic Income: For the Sceptics
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Nicholas Smith

Post-Work Won’t Work
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Paula Erizanu, Stephen Walt

How To Understand a World Run By Bad Boys
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Peter Tatchell

We need economic democracy, not a dictatorship
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Joseph Nye

The battle for global domination
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Chris Ogden

Hidden global power grab

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Kerry Brown

The mysterious superpower
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Arvind Panagariya

Spending won't save us
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Jeffrey Miron, Erin Partin

The silver linings of economic collapse
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Nigel Inkster

Huawei and the Great Decoupling
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Daniel Markey

Tipping the geopolitical balance - The China-Iran deal
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Gary Smith

Phantom patterns
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Chris Ogden

The last days of America
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Marcus Papadopoulos

Trump vs Biden: It doesn't matter