About the Institute for Global Prosperity
The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) is redesigning prosperity for the 21st century, changing the way we conceive and run our economies, and reworking our relationship with the planet. IGP's vision is to build a prosperous, sustainable, global future, underpinned by the principle of fairness and justice, and allied to a realistic, long-term vision of humanity's place in the world.
The IGP undertakes pioneering research that seeks to dramatically improve the quality of life for this and future generations. Its strength lies in the way it allies intellectual creativity to effective collaboration and policy development. Of particular importance to the IGP's approach is the way in which it integrates non-academic expertise into its knowledge generation by engaging with governments, policy makers, business, civil society, the arts and local communities.
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Radio Ballads
Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar
Radio Ballads is a project focusing on workers' experiences and struggles through song, music, sound effect, and community voices. Each ballad presented lived experiences and stories of work and resistance in the UK, at a time of rapid growth and change. A program inspired by Radio Ballad revolutionary radio plays.
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Ben Rawlence
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth investigates the Arctic Treeline, the world’s largest second biome, bringing forward an urgent environmental message. The Arctic Treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years.
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh
In The Nutmeg’s curse, writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean.
I Always Knew: A memoir
Barbara Chase-Riboud
I always knew: A memoir paints a vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In details, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
Lady of the Gobi
The Guardian
Lady of the Gobi is a documentary about the life of truck driver Maikhuu on Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border. The roads from Mongolia’s mines to China are filled with accidents, toxic pollution, and poor hygiene. Trapped in a hazardous industry, Maikhuu's journey reflects the human and environmental costs of Mongolia’s mining boom.
We Need New Names: A Novel
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel “We Need New Names” depicts social conflict, government abuse, linguistic imposition, displacement and migration through the sceptical voice of ten-year-old Darling, first in a Zimbabwean slum and then in the USA. Her aching longing and love for her people, country, customs, language pervades the book. Darling tries to hold on to her culture and home despite being increasingly engulfed by American life.
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
In the Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies
Nipe Story
Kevin Mwachiro
A fortnightly Kenyan podcast, hosted by Kevin Mwachiro, that gives voice to written short stories. Nipe Story is storytelling of various Kenyan and African realities that make the listener hear the continent with new ears. One can describe the Nipe Story as a library where you will find short story fiction from different writers from other parts of the continent and feature various themes. It is also a pool of African vocal talent.
Earth for All: A survival guide for Humanity
Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström, Per Espen Stocknes
Earth for All: A survival guide for Humanity is both a remedy and a road map to a better future. Using impressive advanced computer modelling to examine policies likely to deliver the best for the majority of people to achieve prosperity in a single generation.
The Lonely Century
Noreena Hertz
The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz, honorary Institute for Global Prosperity Professor, explores how our increasing dependence on technology, radical changes to the workplace and decades of policies that have placed self-interest above the collective good are damaging our communities and making us more isolated than ever before.
A Shiver in the leaves
Luther Hughes
A Shiver in the leaves offers a layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet’s life in the city. Luther Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body, and what it can mean to live.