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Reconsidering climate change intervention: a review of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering

March 6, 2020February 20, 2020 by Justin Reynolds

Exploring the disputed concepts of geoengineering and climate intervention: an excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geogineering.

Categories Design, Economics, Featured, Politics, Reviews, Technology

Rewiring the machine

February 29, 2020June 4, 2019 by Justin Reynolds

An essay written for the Fabian Society on making machine learning, renewables and other new technologies work for the collective good.

Categories Design, Economics, Politics, Science Fiction, Technology

Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson

March 6, 2020January 5, 2019 by Justin Reynolds

An essay for New Socialist on the political science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a focus on his most recent novel Red Moon.

Categories Design, Economics, Featured, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Technology
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Designing the future: a review of Economic Science Fictions

May 27, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

A little over a century ago, there was an expectation that the future was ours to map and manage. An excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Economic Science Fictions, edited by Wiliam Davies.

Categories Economics, Film, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Technology

Rebooting capitalism: finding a language for discussing an alternative economics

March 18, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

Why, 10 years after a crisis of capitalism that has entrenched inequalities and insecurity, do progressives still struggle to convince a sceptical public that an alternative economics is possible? A report by the New Economics Foundation offers an answer.

Categories Economics, Politics, Reviews

A future that works for all: the rise of platform co-operatives

March 3, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

Is it possible for tech innovators to reimagine themselves as social entrepreneurs? If the digital economy is evolving towards the platform, can the platforms be democratised – co-owned by those who work for them and those who use them? An article for norDEV Magazine.

Categories Economics, Featured, Politics, Technology

On Marx and markets: Deng Xiaoping’s economic revolution 40 years on

February 14, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

How did an economic model patched together 40 years ago by Deng Xiaoping with the assistance of a well-thumbed copy of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme – and not much else – prove so effective for China, an economy which has grown fifty-fold since 1978?

Categories Economics, Politics
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This blog archives work by essayist and business writer Justin Reynolds from 2014 to early 2020, when I wrote  about technology, politics, business, economics, design and culture. Words for CityMetric, openDemocracy, The Calvert Journal, The New European, Social Europe, The Norwich Radical and New Socialist. More »

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  • Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson January 5, 2019
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  • ‘A Party with Socialists in It’: a review of a new history of the Labour Party May 6, 2018

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