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Lessons from the crisisSocial innovation: different responses from organized citizens

In the face of the post-crisis neoliberal siren calls, crying out for individual responsibility, civil society has organized itself to provide a collective response to the consequences...

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Lessons from the crisisDisparity drives us further apart: psychological effects of economic inequality

Economic inequality is conducive to individualism. Living in unequal societies makes us more concerned about our social position; the greater the difference, the further the distance...

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Lessons from the crisisInequality in the age of disconnection

José Moisés Martín Carretero

The economic crisis has widened the gaps (labour, generation, gender and fiscal) that contribute to exacerbating inequality. If societies continue to increase these divides and the...

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Lessons from the crisisDivides that separate, bridges to be built

Marga León

Europe’s economic reconstruction in the second half of the 20^th century focussed on providing liberal democracies with institutions that would protect citizens’ social rights...

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Lessons from the crisisFrom the mortgage scam to the rent scam

Jaime Palomera

A decade after the worst real estate bubble in history burst, access to housing is still one of the major social problems. And it is because states operate as another cog in the...

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Lessons from the crisisThere is an alternative, it is progressive capitalism

Antón Costas

Is capitalism compatible with democracy and prosperity? The rise in inequalities in the early 21^st century has had worrying implications in liberal democracies, which are...

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Lessons from the crisisOpen wounds

Milagros Pérez Oliva

There are more poor people today, and they have even less than before the crisis. Organised citizenship has tackled this situation with social innovation and solidarity, but worsening...

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Tourism, between wealth and residents’ complaints

Barcelona receives more than 12 million visitors per year for both business and pleasure. The city is the location of one out of every three tourism companies in...

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