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It’s been a while since I wrote for the3rdimagazine.
I found the last few weeks of 2012 much more difficult than expected. (My stepson was killed cycling to work on 5 January 2012). Approaching Christmas and all it represents for family celebrations we found ourselves getting …

Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, at the end of last month. The transcript of her speech, A New Global Economy for a New Generation can be found here: http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2013/012313.htm
In her speech to the World …

I saw only today on facebook this comment, “If the growing number of people that are openly calling  for the PM and his government to be lynched is telling us anything, it is that revolution is imminent.”
I don’t agree with this conclusion but the growing …

Entering the Worlds of Integral Economics
Article 1: Arriving at the rope bridge
This is the first in a series – of indeterminate length – in which I will seek to introduce the main themes, principles, concepts and practical solutions offered by the developing model of integral …

Dick Philbrick, Chairman of Clansman Dynamics, is the newly appointed Chair of Co-operative Development Scotland. Here he explains how his passion for co-operative models has underpinned a successful business career of 40 years.
You could say I’ve been on a forty year journey of promoting and …