Peter Gaskell News Today

We look back at some of the best art and cultural offerings to come out of Wales this year.

A new study from the University of Waterloo estimates that over the past two decades the amount of e-waste in the country has more than tripled.

Entries are open for the Norfolk Business Awards 2022. Here we speak to the judge for the Small Business of the Year award, Peter Gaskell from Upp Broadband.

New beech leaves, Gribskov Forest in the northern part of Sealand, Denmark. Malene Thyssen, Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College. “The old Greek philosophers,” Fr...

NationofChange Adam Smith’s invisible hand is at our throats Today our greed-based, war addicted, and growth-obsessed economic system poses even greater threats than it did during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution. The invisible hand As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that this, in effect, serves the wider social interest. He put forward a det...

John Scales Avery As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that this, in effect, serves the wider social interest. He put forward a detailed description of this concept in an immense book, “The Wealth of Nations” (1776). Adam Smith (1723-1790) had been Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow, but in 1764 he withdrew from his position at the university to become the t...