What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
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Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Feature, Story, Uncategorized
Clocking Out
Can we imagine an economy built for free time?
Posted inNonfiction
Truly Seeing the River: An Interview with Writer Boyce Upholt
Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
Rowland Baring, governor of the Bank of England between 1961 and 1966, found the Bretton Woods system — which controlled the exchange of currency and used gold-backed US dollars as an “impartial” international currency — both unethical and damaging to the City of London. Many agreed. When banker Ian Fraser changed the way the global economy […]
Posted inNonfiction
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Irvine Welsh on Brexit, Existential Panic, and His Latest ‘Trainspotting’ Sequel
“The books from ‘Trainspotting’ onwards have been about deindustrialization … the cruel existential panic that we feel, in the sense that we don’t really know what we’re here for anymore.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
A reported personal essay in which Melissa Chadburn writes about her work, under cover, as a temp, and considers the effects of temporary employment on those who have limited power and little choice but to work for low wages with no job security. With support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me About Our Broken Economy
To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
