https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:58:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/expletive-delighted/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/expletive-delighted/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136420

Cory Doctorow’s book dumps on the digital economy for its descent into the sewer, driven by exploitative practices toward its customers. Doctorow provides a case for why it need not … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/expletive-delighted/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/explosive-new-book-argues-facebook-is-a-global-engine-of-harm-and-corruption-is-reform-possible/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/explosive-new-book-argues-facebook-is-a-global-engine-of-harm-and-corruption-is-reform-possible/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:26:24 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=127510

Sara Wynn-Williams, defying Facebook’s attempts to silence her, reveals the company’s toxic culture and global damage, exposing unethical practices and a profit-at-any-cost approach. The key question she leaves us with: … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/explosive-new-book-argues-facebook-is-a-global-engine-of-harm-and-corruption-is-reform-possible/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/growth-some-inconvenient-truths/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/growth-some-inconvenient-truths/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:29:10 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=126922

Could claims that economic growth can persist forever and ever and global warming is not an obstacle actually be delusional? Steve Keen offers evidence. Daniel Susskind’s book  “Growth: A Reckoning” … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/growth-some-inconvenient-truths/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/some-readers-might-find-these-upsetting/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/some-readers-might-find-these-upsetting/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:18:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=116319

Henry Leveson-Gower examines two texts that explain how neoliberal thinking and human frailty brought us to where we are. Richard Seymour, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, Verso 2024 … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/some-readers-might-find-these-upsetting/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/sharks-are-eating-the-whales/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/sharks-are-eating-the-whales/#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:34:22 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=61866

Alex Kozul-Wright reviews The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller, Manchester Press (2022) and The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson, Penguin Random House (2018). Though distinct in their focus, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/sharks-are-eating-the-whales/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-end-of-the-beginning/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-end-of-the-beginning/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:56:45 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=60983

As the climate crisis has escalated over the past decade, there has been a conspicuous absence of films that mirror the predicament we are faced with. Climate philosopher and activist … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-end-of-the-beginning/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-of-your-life/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-of-your-life/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:51:53 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=48944

Having free time need not require great wealth – Guy Standing’s The Politics of Time explains why work is overvalued. Review by Alex Kozul-Wright. The Politics of Time is not … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-of-your-life/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-parasite-that-is-consuming-the-world/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-parasite-that-is-consuming-the-world/#respond Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:30:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=47627

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises (2023), by Marjorie Kelly with foreword by Edgar Villanueva. Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 9781523004775. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-parasite-that-is-consuming-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/debt-crisis-paradox-or-plain-wrong/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/debt-crisis-paradox-or-plain-wrong/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:56:06 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=35567

Guy Dauncey says we can dig ourselves out of the accumulating mountain of private debt but a lot needs to change.  The Paradox of Debt is a new book by … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/debt-crisis-paradox-or-plain-wrong/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-call-to-rage/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-call-to-rage/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:33:15 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=35538

Despite Doon Mackichan’s description of her memoir of a life in show business, My Lady Parts, as a “dry feminist rant” it is rather moist and delicious. Review by Annee … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-call-to-rage/feed/ 0