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Conversations in Economics is a series of interviews with Cambridge-INET Institute visitors. These distinguished economists explore some of today's most challenging economic questions and introduce viewers to their exciting research. http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/video-series/

The last few decades of human prosperity have taken a devastating ecological toll. This is in part because nature is absent from the accounting systems that dictate national economies. In February 2021, the Cambridge economist Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta published a ground-breaking report on the economics of biodiversity. Watch Sir Partha outline the radical thinking required to reshape global

This video discusses C-131/12 Google Spain; Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case which examined the rights of individuals mentioned in public domain material indexed on Google search. This Court decision enunciated both the scope and breadth of data

Part of the Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. Social scientists tell us we now live that we live in a world risk society. But what does this really mean and what, if anything, do environmental risks, health risks, and natural disasters have in common with those posed by terrorism? When we move from the natural world to human threats are we still dealing with hard science or are we in the realm

As a national vaccination programme begins in the UK’s fight against COVID-19, we look back to 1950s America when a group of teenagers (and Elvis) inspired a fresh look at pro-vaccine public health information. Vaccination programmes are considered to be one of the greatest public health achievements in history. Yet recent years have seen a rise in vaccine-preventable diseases like measles as a

The University of Cambridge contributes nearly £30 billion to the UK economy and supports more than 86,000 jobs across the UK according to a report by London Economics. London Economics, one of Europe’s leading specialist economics and policy consultancies, was commissioned to assess the economic impact of the University through activities such as research and knowledge exchange, teaching and

Welcome to Mind Over Chatter, the Cambridge University Podcast! One series at a time, we break down complex issues into simple questions. In this first series, we’ll explore climate change. Climate change is likely to affect almost every area of our lives… like a toddler with sticky fingers. But how did it become this way? What are we doing about it now? And what does the future hold?We’ll

How do social science and economics fit into research on palm oil production? Rosemary Ostfeld, PhD Student in the Department of Land Economy, explains how her understanding of society and consumer behaviour is crucial for her to liaise with stakeholders to determine the effectiveness of initiatives. This film is one of a series of eight that showcases the extent that conservation-related

This new short documentary tells the story of the first year of one man's life after prison. Josh has served numerous prison sentences, the last of which was an 8 year sentence extended for public protection. He is registered as a priority prolific offender. The police advised his probation officer that she would probably recall him within 3 hours of release from prison. This is his story of the

In combining theory and experiments, we should have two objectives in mind. The first objective is to confront the theory with some data to see whether the theory is at all consistent with the behavior exhibited in the laboratory. Clearly, there is much that can be learned about the theory from the data, quite apart from any notion of "testing" the theory. We hope to learn whether the theory is