The Ragged University project views economics in sustainable, equitable and local terms. In part it is about exploring what this means and identifying a humanised perspective of people in the ordinary business of everyday life:

Articles:

• A Short History of the Stockmarket
• Action Research: Outputs, Outcomes and the Political Setting
• Barriers to Participation in an Economy: Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Opportunity
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Behavioural Reactions to Dissonance and Confirmation Bias
• Business and Community
• Catalysing Equitable Pay in the Private Sector: Equitable Pay as Procurement Criteria by Benjamine Irvine
• Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem; A Ragged University Response
• Corporate MOTing: Hints and Tips on Interpreting Business Reportage Part One: Annual Reports: What Are They Good For? by Doreen Soutar
• Corporate MOTing: Hints and Tips on Interpreting Business Reportage Part Three: SWOTS, PESTS, and CSR by Doreen Soutar
• Corporate MOTing: Hints and Tips on Interpreting Business Reportage: Part two: Show me the money by Doreen Soutar
• Critical Apprenticeships: The Wrights and the Wrongs of Passage
• Economics: Special Exam
• Education As A Public Good: A Digest
• Education, Training and Applied Economics: A Digest
• Education, Welfare and Economics: A Human Capabilities View
• Ethnocentricism and Country of Origin Effects: Literature Review by Doreen Soutar
• Ethnocentrism and Country of Origin Effects: Ethnocentrism and Consumers by Doreen Soutar
• Ethnocentrism and Country of Origin Effects: Introduction by Doreen Soutar
• Ethnocentrism and Country of Origin Effects: The Process of Purchasing by Doreen Soutar
• Food Speculation: The Ordinary Business Of Life
• Foodsharing Edinburgh
• How Financial Speculation is Artificially Inflating Staple Food Prices
• Human Development and Opportunity Costs
• In Place of Pay Inequality: By Benjamin Irvine
• Independent Business: An Interview With Ali Gower Owner Of The Chocolate Tree
• Intellectual Property: Fair Dealing and Public Interest
• Intellectual Property: History, Public Domain and Ideas by Alex Dunedin
• Invisible Colleges and Owning Our Common Intellectual Heritage
• Is Economics a Dismal Science?
• Joseph Stiglitz Talks About Creating A Learning Society
• Living Well: Practical Solidarity and Steady State
• Local Economies and Neighbourhood Renewal
• Local Third Places and Re-Imagining Economies as Sustainable
• Pay Multiples: Policies on the Relationship Between Top Pay and that of the Rest by Benjamin Irvine
• Podcast and Annotated Transcript: I Daniel Blake – The Benefit Cuts Debate with Jeane Freeman MSP Social Security Minister, Paul Laverty Screenwriter, and others
• Podcast: Dr Gabriel Siles-Brugge talks about the background to TTIP
• Podcast: International Waste Management; Crises and Opportunities by David Brown
• Podcast: Polly Jones of the World Development Movement Discusses TTIP
• Podcast: Professor Clive George talks about TTIP
• Podcast: Richard Murphy, Taxation, Secrecy Jurisdictions and the Joy of Tax
• Public Places Where We Meet And Share Are Third Places
• Student as Consumer: A Sign of a Global Pathology of Consuming the World
• Sustainable Business: Interview With Eleanor Cunningham Owner of Edinburgh Larder
• Tackling Income Inequality: Local Government Pay Policies by Benjamin Irvine
• The Banking Game: Analysis of the Extinction of the Bank as Trusted Institution by Doreen Soutar
• The Banking Game: Literature Review Part One by Doreen Soutar
• The Banking Game: Literature Review Part Three and Conclusion by Doreen Soutar
• The Banking Game: Literature Review Part Two by Doreen Soutar
• The Corporate Takeover of Education
• The Corporation: Public Discussion on the Film
• The Country of Origin (COO) Effect by Doreen Soutar
• The Environmental and Social Costs of Inequality by Benjamin Irvine
• The Manipulation and Distortion of The Stockmarket
• The Medium is the Means: The Industrial-Educational Complex
• The Moral Marketplace by Doreen Soutar
• The Production of Scarcity and Famine
• The Rise of Offshore Business
• Understanding How to Support a Local Economy