https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:40:15 +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/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136499

Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136386

Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136411

Donatella Gasparro suggests the real culprit is capitalism, and we need a post-growth alternative. After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136424

Stewart Lansley argues that too much of the UK’s abundant wealth is the wrong kind. As the dust settles on Labour’s budget, it is worth recalling that Keir Starmer went … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:27 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136439

Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/#respond Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:00:54 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133119

The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/commons-threaded/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/commons-threaded/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:20:28 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133059

Can commoning be woven into the fabric of the era of post-responsibility corporations? Maisie McCarthy sees a pluralistic light ahead. It’s no surprise that with Trump in, ESG is out. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/commons-threaded/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-missing-middle/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-missing-middle/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:40:46 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133042

Wolfram Elsner looks at the economics in the space between individuals and nations. For decades, economics has been dominated by two lenses: the micro, which focuses on individual agents, and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-missing-middle/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-than-a-buzzword/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-than-a-buzzword/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:53:38 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133026

Anders Hayden charts the rise of a concept of an economy focused on human needs and sustainability, and warns of its vulnerability to being co-opted by the mainstream as a … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-than-a-buzzword/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-whiff-of-betrayal/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-whiff-of-betrayal/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:30:50 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133009

Jia-Ren Tan charts how the Malaysian state has plundered the fruits of the labours of the country’s family farms. In April 2025, state enforcement officers arrived in Raub—a highland town … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-whiff-of-betrayal/feed/ 0