Connor Lane

Connor Lane is a scholar with the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation

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We need the classrooms of tomorrow – today

In almost every sector of society, technology has delivered revolutionary improvements in efficiency over our lifetimes – even just over the past decade. Yet there is one glaring technophobic outlier. Education. For all the hype around online courses, or computers in the classrooms, the basic model is the same as it ever was: children sit […]

Ideas

Economic illiteracy is helping the bad guys win

Over the past few months, many people have tried to come up with an explanation for the rise of populism and nationalism – the way the rhetoric of Trump and Sanders, Le Pen and Wilders, seems to resonate throughout the world. But there’s one contributory factor that people are reluctant to admit to: that the […]