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4 Sep 2008: Vickrey's first degree was in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Yale, and he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1996. ... In his ideal world, engineering economics would occupy a position of prominence and efficient pricing would be a

6 Mar 2008: His talk will cover certain aspects of Shackle’s interest in the role of decision-making in economics, examining in particular Shackle’s challenges to rational choice theory. ... Rational choice theory is the dominant model of decision making in many

2 Jun 2008: The event, ‘Bioscience:Biomillions’, illustrated how the UK’s excellent bioscience research base, principally funded by BBSRC with over £400M of public money each year, is delivering substantial economic and social ... Steve Visscher, BBSRC

7 Jul 2008: Options for Britain II” is sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, Oxford University. ... The conference is also sponsored by the Cambridge Journal of Economics, History and Policy, and the Political Quarterly.

22 Jul 2008: IMF lending programmes demand that countries meet strict economic targets as a condition of the loans. ... The International Monetary Fund has argued that their goal is to boost economic growth and that ‘wealthier is healthier’,” added King.

22 Jul 2008: IMF lending programmes demand that countries meet strict economic targets as a condition of the loans. ... The International Monetary Fund has argued that their goal is to boost economic growth and that 'wealthier is healthier'," added King.

1 Sep 2008: Professor Simone Hochgreb and colleagues in the Department of Engineering have built the rig to support the Environmentally Friendly Engine programme, which

1 Sep 2008: A team of over a dozen researchers at the Rolls-Royce Materials UTC in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has been studying the properties of

4 Jul 2008: All three of these high-achievers will be the first in their families to go to university. They were among 50 students from schools and colleges in Essex,

8 Feb 2008: Vigilance, absolutely. Protectionism and containment no. Why? Because openness is in our economic interest. ... The European economic interest is not the sum of what happens within our borders.

1 May 2008: The emergence of commercial fishing represents a major watershed in European economic history and the intensity of human use of the sea. ... For historians this could help mark the origins of the notion of Europe as an economic community.

1 Feb 2008: But it is less clear whether the pattern of solutions directly responds to economic interests. ... This study has illustrated that private law can operate with a kind of relative autonomy from contemporary social and political ideas or economic interests.

20 Dec 2008: This did not prevent Keynes from issuing trenchant judgements on Marx’s economics. ... Conclusion. Marx’s economic theory was a significant advance from classical political economy.

6 Aug 2008: The majority of the contributors form part of an ongoing research network on Gender Inequalities funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

8 Feb 2008: Because the AHRC’s definition of KT is broad and flexible in implementation, its impact has extended to key societal and economic challenges. ... Several new strategic initiatives have been planned for 2007–2008. In 2007, the AHRC launched a joint

3 Dec 2008: The study was based on interviews with Muslim students at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and the University of Bradford.

1 May 2008: Since the country began to integrate with the world’s economic and business systems, a consistently stated goal of China’s industrial policy has been to construct internationally competitive companies. ... which are state owned and still central to

26 Feb 2008: Incidents like the Northern Rock crisis not only have an impact in economic terms, but also on human lives. ... Models were used to control variables such as economic stability at the time, and the differing degrees to which individual countries monitor

20 Aug 2008: That cause can often be economic, but there are clear signs that many of these movements encourage people to take pride in their country and the part they play in Japanese ... Japanese people are also being encouraged to rise early to increase their

1 Sep 2008: Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the study forms part of a wider £30 million Teaching and Learning Research