Business / Economics
Mental wealth
Forget earnings reports: a new generation of stockpilers assemble their portfolios based on lessons from psychological research. Can behavioural finance make sense in a crazy market.
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Affairs / Architecture
Model behaviour
Construction work continues in Burma’s new model capital, inaugurated in 2005. Its sparkling buildings are designed to consolidate the generals’ power – but with small steps towards democracy, could Aung San Suu Kyi one day…
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
Australians get the hump, Fiji loses its midwives and Aussie males get a bad reputation.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Australia tackles tax evasion on Vanuatu, New Zealand uses music to fight antisocial behaviour and the tiny state of Timor-Leste gets its own airline.
Midori House, episode 170
Our Rio correspondent reflects on the +20 sustainability conference, Author William J Dobson discusses the behaviour of despots, and we visit Cannes Lions creativity festival.
Affairs / Government
A Little Push
The Behavioural Insights Team – otherwise known as the Nudge Unit – is improving public services in the UK via clever tweaks of policy and subtle changes to the delivery of information. Monocle investigates the art of…
Affairs / Government
Did they do well?
In the world of politics, September is the start of a new term in many countries, so we’ve compiled our report cards for 15 leaders. Who has gone to the top of the class and who should be doing extra homework? We give marks…
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 December
FIFA tells Brazil the new rules of the game
It’s no secret that Brazil is a football-obsessed nation.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Sunday 22 July
Freeze – put your logos where I can see them!
A middle-aged man in official-looking clothing marches down the street. He’s determined, on a mission.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 31 October
The gentlemen’s club that is the Commonwealth
It is easy to deride the Commonwealth as an irrelevance and an anachronism, which is doubtless why so many do.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 18 August
Stab at diplomacy in bid to answer the Israel-Palestine question
While the Arab Spring has garnered acres of news coverage since the start of the year, events in the Middle East’s most volatile and seemingly intractable conflict have gone all but unnoticed.
Culture / Music
Monocolumn
Friday 19 April
Smart moves
South Korean soft-power savant – Psy – is back. But repeating the success of his global dance craze "Gangnam Style" will require some forward-thinking.
Design / Industry
Monocolumn
Thursday 21 February
The new audience
Social media and smartphones turn life into a performance but that doesn't mean it’s always showtime.
Affairs / Manufacturing
Monocolumn
Sunday 28 August
The drugs don’t work
Earlier this month, New Zealanders woke to find the shelves of corner stores across the country stripped of their most contentious product.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Friday 9 December
The Leveson Inquiry
For any aficionado of the more bizarre digressions of politics and the media, it seems churlish to complain about the board of fare offered by the Leveson Inquiry.
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Friday 2 December
The animal kingdom of the high street
What is it about shopping at this time of year that turns people into animals?
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 December
Rethinking North Korea
Not content with penning the most savage attack on American literature in decades, US academic Brian Myers has produced a book destined to shatter conventional assumptions about the world’s most mysterious nation.
Edits / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 20 August
The power to imprison is not about preference
Why are there not more people in jail? On most streets there is someone who should be manhandled to the floor, handcuffed and locked away for a very long time.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 4 April
Let’s hear it for the local ‘character’
Londoners cherish cloudless days as if they were summer flings.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 5 December
South America: a question of land
The Argentinean province of Formosa is firmly off the tourist radar.