Latest thinking

Where were you when the music stopped?

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20 May 2020

Tony Danker FRSA

Tony Danker FRSA on how what has happened to business in the last six weeks and where we should head for recovery.

Creating local currencies that support the commons

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23 Apr 2020

Alexandra Hayles FRSA

The current crisis is raising fundamental questions about how the way we live and our financial systems threaten our planet and human wellbeing.

A change in central banking?

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22 Apr 2020

Michael Bryane FRSA

Michael Bryane FRSA on whether the current crisis might pose a much needed opportunity for reviewing central bank laws

The progressive case against UBI

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08 Nov 2018

James Murphy

The RSA is a well-known advocate of exploring universal basic income and its potential. Not all our Fellows agree. James Murphy FRSA believes that the concept is fundamentally flawed and argues that is time to abandon the idea.

Business-to-business asset sharing

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08 Aug 2018

Our society is changing. ‘Us’ is becoming the new ‘me’ and access to items is becoming more important than actually possessing them. Laury Zwart champions the role asset sharing between businesses.

Work and the Transition Myth

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06 Aug 2018

Graham Norris

The technologies currently being developed and rolled out will have fundamental consequences for future economic activity. Graham Norris FRSA argues that when talking about the future of work, we need to ditch the suggestion that there will be some transition endpoint and embrace the fact that change will continue to accelerate.

Blockchain platforms can enable good work

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01 Feb 2018

Andy Spence

Despite high-profile issues with digital work platforms, blockchain technology could help us ensure the next generation are fair, effective and promote good work.

The Emotional Hedge

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17 Oct 2017

James Lawson

In recent years, economics has developed insights from behavioural psychology - but have lessons been learnt by the investment community?

Brixtopia: a new nation-state-of-mind

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02 Oct 2017

Charlie Waterhouse

In the wake of Brexit and the resurgence of the right, and with social media seeking to ever-narrow our horizons for commercial gain, two RSA Fellows from London are employing their design skills to create an experimental utopia: Brixtopia.