Work
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01.The Concept of Voluntary Poverty
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02.The Dangers of Having Too Little To Do
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03.How Could a Working Life Be Meaningful?
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04.On Learning to Live Deeply Rather than Broadly
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05.What They Forget to Teach You at School
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06.Authentic Work
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07.Why We Need to Work
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08.How We Came to Desire a Job We Could Love
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09.Why Work Is So Much Easier than Love
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10.Work and Maturity
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11.How Your Job Shapes Your Identity
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12.Authentic Work
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13.How to Retire Early
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14.The Agonies of Choice
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15.The Creative Itch
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16.Broadening the Job Search
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17.Our Families and Our Careers
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18.The Challenges of Choosing a Career
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19.On Career Crises
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20.The Output/Input Confusion
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21.Finding a Mission
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22.How to Serve
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23.Why Work-Life Balance is an Illusion
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24.On Gratitude – and Motivation
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25.How to Find Fulfilling Work
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26.On the Origins of Motivation at Work
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27.On Becoming an Entrepreneur
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28.On Being an Unemployed Arts Graduate
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29.When Are We Truly Productive?
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30.The Importance of the Siesta
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31.Career Therapy
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32.On Meritocracy
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33.The Vocation Myth
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34.The Good Sides of Work
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35.The Good Office
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36.The EQ Office
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37.Good Salaries: What We Earn - and What We’re Worth
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38.What Good Business Should Be
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39.On the Pleasures of Work
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40.How to Fire Someone
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41.Diplomacy at the Office
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42.How to Tell a Colleague Their Breath Smells
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43.How to Screw Up at Work
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44.How Are You Difficult to Work With? Questionnaire
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45.In Praise of Teamwork
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46.How to Become an Entrepreneur
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47.The Need for Eloquence
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48.The Nature and Causes of Procrastination
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49.In Praise of Networking
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50.Why Creativity is Too Important to Be Left to Artists
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51.How to Survive Bureaucracy
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52.Machismo and Management
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53.What Art Can Teach Business About Being Fussy
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54.On Novelists and Manuals
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55.How Not to Let Work Explode Your Life
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56.How to Sell
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57.Innovation, Empathy and Introspection
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58.Innovation and Creativity
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59.Innovation and Science Fiction
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60.The Acceptance of Change
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61.The Collaborative Virtues
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62.Towards Better Collaboration
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63.How To Make Efficiency a Habit
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64.On Raising the Prestige of 'Details'
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65.Monasticism & How to Avoid Distraction
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66.How to Dare to Begin
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67.On Meaning – and Motivation
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68.The Psychological Obstacles Holding Employees Back
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69.On Feedback
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70.How to Better Understand Customers
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71.On Bounded and Unbounded Tasks
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72.On Small Talk at the Office
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73.On Falling Apart at the Office
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74.The Sorrows of Competition
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75.What Is That Sunday Evening Feeling?
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76.How Parents Get in the Way of Our Career Plans
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77.Why Modern Work Is So Boring
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78.Why Pessimism is the Key to Good Government
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79.The Sorrows of Colleagues
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80.The Sorrows of Commercialisation
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81.The Sorrows of Standardisation
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82.Confidence in the System
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83.Job Monogamy
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84.The Duty Trap
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85.The Perfectionist Trap
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86.On Professional Failure
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87.Nasty Businesses
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88.The Job Investment Trap
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89.How Your Job Shapes Your Identity
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90.The Pains of Leadership
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91.Would It Be Better for Your Job If You Were Celibate?
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92.On Stress and Inner Voices
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93.On Being Wary of Simple-Looking Issues
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94.On Commuting
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95.On the Sorrows of Work
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96.On Misemployment
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97.On Guilt-trips and Charm
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98.On Eating a Friend
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99.Is the Modern World Too 'Materialistic'?
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100.The Purpose of Advertising
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101.On Consumer Capitalism
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102.The Importance of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs
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103.How to Live More Wisely Around Our Phones
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104.Money and 'Higher Things'
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105.Why We Are All Addicts
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106.Why We Are So Bad at Shopping
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107.Business and the Ladder of Needs
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108.Consumer Self-Knowledge
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109."Giving Customers What They Want"
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110.The Entrepreneur and the Artist
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111.What Advertising Can Learn from Art
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112.What the Luxury Sector Does for Us
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113.On Using Sex to Sell
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114.Understanding Brand Promises
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115.Consumer Education: On Learning How to Spend
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116.Good Materialism
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117.Why We Hate Cheap Things
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118.Why We Continue to Love Expensive Things
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119.Why Advertising Is so Annoying - but Doesn't Have to Be
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120.On Good Demand
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121.On Consumption and Status Anxiety
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122.Adverts Know What We Want - They Just Can't Sell It to us
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123.On the Responsibility of the Consumer
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124.On the True Desires of the Rich
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125.Winners and Losers in the Race of Life
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126.Being on the Receiving End of Pity
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127.Shakespeare: 'When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state...'
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128.On Asking People What They 'Do'?
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129.Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional
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130.On the Loss of Reputation
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131.The Secret Sorrows of Over-Achievers
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132.You Are Not What You Earn
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133.Artistic Philanthropy
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134.The Need to Keep Believing in Luck
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135.On Glamour
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136.The Incumbent Problem
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137.How to Cope with Snobbery
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138.On the Dangers of Success
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139.On Doing Better Than Our Parents
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140.Success at School vs. Success in Life
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141.Why We Look Down on People Who Don’t Earn Very Much
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142.What Is 'Success'?
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143.On Children and Power
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144.On Pleasure in the Downfall of the Mighty
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145.On Status and Democracy
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146.On Failure and Success in the Game of Fame
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147.On Envy
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148.A Philosophical Exercise for Envy
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149.On the Envy of Politicians
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150.On the Desire for Fame
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151.On Consumption and Status Anxiety
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152.On Fame and Sibling Rivalry
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153.What Should Truly Motivate Us at Work
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154.Nature as a Cure for the Sickness of Modern Times
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155.The Difficulties of Work-Life Balance
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156.The Challenges of Modernity
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157.Businesses for Love; Businesses for Money
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158.Countries for Losers; Countries for Winners
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159.Towards a Solution to Inequality
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160.Free Trade - or Protectionism?
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161.Should We Work on Ourselves - or on the World?
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162.Why Is There Unemployment?
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163.Artists and Supermarket Tycoons
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164.Business and the Arts
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165.Sentimentality in Art - and Business
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166.How to Make a Country Rich
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167.First World Problems
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168.On Devotion to Corporations
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169.Good vs Classical Economics
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170.What Is a Good Brand?
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171.Good Economic Measures: Beyond GDP
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172.What Good Business Should Be
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173.On the Faultiness of Our Economic Indicators
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174.On the Dawn of Capitalism
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175.Utopian Capitalism
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176.On Philanthropy
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177.On Reading the Newspaper
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178.On Switching Off the News
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179.We've Been Here Before
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180.In Praise of Bias
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181.The News from Without - and the News from Within
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182.History as a Corrective to News
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183.Emotional Technology
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184.What's Wrong with the Media
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185.On the Dangers of the Internet
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186.On Taking Digital Sabbaths
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187.On the Role of Censorship
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188.On the Role of Disasters
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189.On the Role of Art in News
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190.Tragedies and Ordinary Lives in the Media
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191.On the Failures of Economic News
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192.On Health News
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193.What State Broadcasters Should Do
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194.On News and Kindness
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195.On the Role of Cheerful News
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196.On Maniacs and Murderers
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197.The United States and Happiness
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198.On Living in Democracies
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199.Political Emotional Maturity
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200.On Feeling Offended
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201.A Guide to Good Nationalism
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202.Why We Do - After All - Care about Politics
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203.Why Socrates Hated Democracy
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204.The Fragility of Good Government
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205.Romantic vs. Classical Voters
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206.Africa after Independence
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207.Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
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208.How Science Could - at Last - Properly Replace Religion
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209.Our Forgotten Craving for Community
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210.Why isn't the Future here yet?
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211.On Changing the World
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212.What Community Centres Should Be Like
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213.On Seduction
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214.The Importance of Utopian Thinking
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215.Art is Advertising for What We Really Need
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216.Why the World Stands Ready to Be Changed
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217.On the Desire to Change the World
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218.Utopian Collective Pride
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219.Envy of a Utopian Future
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220.Utopian Artificial Intelligence
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221.Utopian Education
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222.Utopian Marriage
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223.Utopian Festivals
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224.Utopian Culture
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225.Utopian Film
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226.Utopian Business Consultancy
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227.Utopian Media
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228.Utopian Government
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229.Utopian Capitalism
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230.Utopian Celebrity Culture
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231.The Future of the Banking Industry
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232.The Future of the Communications Industry
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233.The Future of the Hotel Industry