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How Brexit turned the UK German

Future Trends: Jumping a year forward, Stian Westlake offers up a fairytale of 2017, where Britain's political and economic landscape has taken on a Teutonic texture

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Mess is more

Review: The new book by popular economist Tim Harford challenges the clean desk industrial complex and offers a humane ode to untidiness

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How the Beatles gave us the CT scan, and what it tells us about innovation

If you want to understand the relationship between financial markets and innovation, consider the story of how the Beatles helped revolutionise medical imaging

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Why can't workers benefit more from the tools of the sharing economy?

Comment: Why isn't labour benefiting more from new technology?

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What we talk about when we talk about stagnation

Comment: Are we really running out of good ideas, asks Stian Westlake

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Good ideas that didn't pan out, part 5: alternative banking

The Chicago Plan: a worthy innovation from the past that didn't quite make it

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Good ideas that didn't pan out, part 4: defence plans

The Alternative Corporate Plan, an early maker movement

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Good ideas that didn't pan out, part 3: health centre

A worthy innovation ahead of its time?

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Good ideas that didn't pan out, part 2: Project Cybersyn

A failed attempt to run Chile's economy by computer