Denizen One

This post includes another extract from Peter Dauvergne's Environmentalism of the Rich The environmental movement has been self-policed...

Extract from Alan France’s Essay Austerity and the ‘Workfare State’: The Remaking and Reconfiguration of Citizenship for the Young...

Extract from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic If You're a Ward of the State, You Must Be Bipolar The medicating of foster...

Sometimes you start a book, and right from the first page it starts dropping bombs. Extract from Dan Davies' The Unaccountability...

Extract from Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray & Martin Watts An explanation of why all countries can't rely on fiscal...

They say raising the minimum wage is bad for the economy. But is it really so clear cut? Does it hurt the economy? So...why mainstream...

The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men . The term implies behaviour "which is caused neither...

Extracts from Wilkinson & Pickett’s The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s...

David Graeber's refreshing (and often hilarious) look into bureaucracy and culture Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules "The...

A false sense of hope robs us of a sense of urgency when facing a dire situation. What we need is real hope, practical solutions and if...

Extracts from Sanford F. Schram's The Return of Ordinary Capitalism "Yet for those who fail at becoming on their own financially savvy...

Extract from Guy Standing's The Precariat: A New Dangerous Class "Varieties of precariat However one defines it, the precariat is far...

A current weakness of the precariat is also potentially it’s greatest strength; it’s diversity. Although members of the precariat share a...

Members of the precariat are many and varied, but they have a few features in common. Extracts from Guy Standing's A Precariat Charter:...

Extract from William Davies The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-being "What it all ultimately comes...

Extract from Rachel Sherman's Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence “Regardless of their struggles, almost all my respondents...

Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue...

Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “At this point I can return to...

Excerpt from 'The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity' by David Graeber and David Wengrow Lahontan: This is why the wicked need...

I know it seems lovely on the surface, but this place hides a lot of dark secrets. So, how bad is inequality in my home town? Extract...