‘A Brief History of Equality’ Is Also Map Leading Us Out of Our Unequal Era
Part historical text, part optimistic political manifesto, A Brief History of Equality reimagines democratic socialism to suit our global economic crisis.
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‘Aquinas and the Market’ and the Possibility of a “Truly Humane Economic System”
With Aquinas and the Market, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld begins a necessary conversation between economic and theological sectors, in the academy and, one hopes, outside the ivory towers and seminaries, to calculate our ultimate worth.
Does Reality Television Need ‘The Profit’?
A series about making money, airing on CNBC, might seem like an unlikely place for fostering positive values.
Who Made the Machines That Remade the World?
Walter Isaacson's The Innovators explores the history of the digital age as told through the intertwined lives of the men and women who created it.
The Industrial Revolution 2.0
We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.