Denizen One

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...

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 - 17 July 1790) is seen by some as 'The Father of Economics' or The Father of Capitalism' Extract from David...

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...

For the record, I am an atheist. Extract from Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History “Not long ago, Julio Diaz, a young social...

In 2011 Gary Stevenson became "Citibank's most profitable trader, in the whole world" with a peak $35 million profit achieved for the...

Extract from Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray and Martin Watts "Imagine a small community comprising 100 dogs. Each...

Extract from Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray & Martin Watts Compositional Fallacies are errors in logic that arise...

Youth: urban nomads The world's youth, more than 1 billion aged between 15 and 25, comprise the largest youth cohort in history, a...

Keith Payne, author of 'The Broken Ladder' Extract from Keith Payne’s The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live...

This is in a public square in Hobart, Tasmania. A doctor from the mainland told me he thought more people should be aware of this stuff....

It's called being part of a community. It's not always nice. It's not always easy. This is nothing really. I want it to be very clear I...

Below you will find a link to a YouTube video of one of my favourite economists, Michael Hudson speaking about the geopolitical situation...

The blackboard in the public square owned by the Hobart City Council where I've written hundreds of quotes from various books, mostly...

Extract from Robert Whitaker & Lisa Cosgrove's 'Psychiatry Under the Influence' “As Kriss observed in his article [in which he reviews...

Neoliberalism is a umbrella term for a lot of things Disclaimer: this was written very hastily and has yet to be edited in any way....