Is There Virtue In Gift-Giving, Or Is It Just Business?

But, sometimes, few of us are sufficiently faithful to this spontaneous gesture of freedom, and giving becomes a duty dictated by economic norms or social rules. In other words, giving and business become two variants of the same process.

Global Justice: I Care - But I Think I’m a Marxist!

Today I want to revisit part of that realm of madness and mutiny and look at what Marx has to say about a burning question (for some) left aside in my previous article. It's the answer to the problem of inequality Breusers proposes: "A first condition for solving the problems of poverty, inequalities and exclusion is to abandon the dogma of economic growth."

Can We Run A “Free” Market Without Slaves?

Going Dutch

I count myself among those international students who fortunately or unfortunately dared to learn that darn difficult language of our hosts here in Leuven: Dutch. I have to admit it hasn’t always been easy (knowing if it’s a “de” or “het” word and the past tenses, for example, remain tricky for me) but trying to acquire this quaint little language has sure been a lot of fun.