Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and our Sanity by Robert Peston and Kishan Koria- Review
"So long as we have an economic system geared towards the accumulation of wealth rather than the acquisition of it, inequalities will continue to widen"
Reflections on the gender pay gap: What Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize has taught us
“Five beautiful women? All doing economics? No wayyyy!”
This was remarked by two male PhD students at the UCL faculty welcome drinks after they had...
Oxford partners with IMF to predict disruptions to global supply chain
In collaboration with the IMF, Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute has launched ‘PortWatch’, an online platform monitoring and simulating disruptions to global maritime trade from...
How Britain lost its greatness
'Perhaps it’s best to start our history, as most stories of British decline do, with the prime ministership of Madame Thatcher. '
Where do the IMF’s new forecasts leave us?
"When compared with Europe and America, the UK’s historic ‘greatness’ seems to be faltering."
Why austerity isn’t the answer
Hunt can take the opportunity of Halloween to bury the zombie economics of austerity by choosing to tax the rich and set out a plan for the green future of our economy.
Fatima doesn’t want a job in cyber – and she knows it
"Fatima doesn’t need to retrain. She trained for decades and invested financially and personally to an arts industry that contributed £32.3 billion to the economy in 2018, according to the government's own report."
FIFA politics strike again with latest proposal
FIFA’s recent proposal to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams is not a footballing decision, argues Guillaume Paugam.
Top Australian universities beat the Russell Group for economic influence
The Group of Eight in Australia wield as much as 30% more economic influence than the UK’s leading grouping of research universities
Wealthy backgrounds lead to higher graduate earnings
Study reveals earning prospects are still determined by background, gender, institution and course of study
