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...money there will try to move it out, faster than you can say ‘double dip’. And governments often decide their economic policies assuming such rational actions. Which would be great, if it weren’t for the fact that those pesky humans don’t always do what’s best for them. Sometimes they mistakenly think they know all the facts, or maybe the facts are just too...

...money and the military A map of Ireland from the 19th century. Discussion of military and tax related reasons for drawing up the map. Maps and civil liberties How maps are now made using satellites and global positioning systems, and the inherent civil liberty concerns. Cities - what are they? Anti-urbanism in British culture. Creating urban citizenship at the end of the...

...money-laundering scheme involving a local politician from Paraná, a state in the south of Brazil. By 2014, the investigation had uncovered a massive corruption scandal within Brazil’s state oil company, Petrobras, involving politicians from numerous parties and the country’s biggest construction companies. Under the scheme, top Petrobras officials and a cartel of...

...business and to mitigate much of their profit-driven, harmful effects. And so it is no coincidence that through inter- and intra-class struggles, the origins of a system of social protection through regulation as put into place in Britain during the 1800s. Notwithstanding the long term construction of regulatory regimes in Britain since this period, this ‘social...