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High-flying students challenged to tackle the 2014 Peterhouse Essay…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/high-flying-students-challenged-to-tackle-the-2014-peterhouse-essay-competitions10 Feb 2014: James considered whether population growth was the principal cause of economic change in early modern Europe. -
Honour for leading Indian chemist | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/honour-for-leading-indian-chemist9 Jul 2014: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science recipient, Amartya Sen, received an honorary doctorate in 2009. -
Investing from the heart | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/investing-from-the-heart23 May 2014: Clearly, emotional assets have an obvious appeal beyond being simply a refuge from equities, bonds and gilts during difficult economic times – you can hang them on a wall and play, drink -
Thought-provoking debates on contested identities lead Cambridge…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/thought-provoking-debates-on-contested-identities-lead-cambridge-festival-of-ideas-20148 Jul 2014: Highlights of the Festival of Ideas include the following:. Leading economist Ha-Joon Chang discusses the idea that economics is a science and addresses the failures in economics thinking that he -
“Trust me, I’m a banker” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/trust-me-im-a-banker14 Oct 2014: Whether or not banks and their staff deserve this reputation, in the post-crash economic winter there are few, if any, professions and institutions as universally reviled. -
Understanding the “new migration age” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/understanding-the-new-migration-age3 Feb 2014: back to their homes in developing countries in the form of remittances, subsidising new educational institutions, healthcare and economic enterprise. ... There are many contemporary questions we want to answer:. How do economic globalisation and -
OpenPlant - major boost for synthetic biology | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/openplant-major-boost-for-synthetic-biology30 Jan 2014: Synthetic biology has the potential to drive economic growth but still remains relatively untapped and these new centres will ensure that the UK is at the forefront when it comes to ... Social scientists on the OpenPlant project will help map feasible -
The lost art of risk management | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-lost-art-of-risk-management16 Dec 2014: External risk relates to those economic, political and environmental shocks which may be difficult to predict but should, with the right mitigation capabilities in place, be possible to withstand. ... External economic slowdown, for example, can trigger -
And now, the volcano forecast | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/and-now-the-volcano-forecast22 Oct 2014: When Eyjafjallajӧkull erupted in 2010 in Iceland, the ash cloud it emitted stranded around half of the world’s air traffic, with an estimated global economic cost of US $5 billion. -
Looking for King Lear in Kashmir | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/looking-for-king-lear-in-kashmir22 Aug 2014: These young people are coming of age in a time of great economic and social change, causing upheaval to traditional family expectations. ... This would allow Hindu property developers and businesses to move in: it might aid economic development, but it -
Unsafe havens? Health risks for refugees | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/unsafe-havens-health-risks-for-refugees5 Feb 2014: Their mental health is also at risk. Forced migrations are often the result of violent events or economic hardship, which can have profound psychological consequences. ... In terms of economic forced migration, we find that both labour-receiving -
Portrait of a bloody siege | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/portrait-of-a-bloody-siege9 Mar 2014: Today Anqing is a conurbation of 5.3 million people – a place where there is comparatively little evidence of either its turbulent history or modern China’s economic boom. -
How can education be truly transformative? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-can-education-be-truly-transformative14 Oct 2014: Arif has been working on issues relating to education and development for several years since finishing an undergraduate and masters programme in economics. ... However, after some time working in development, he soon felt that the problems the poor -
Breastfeeding linked to lower risk of postnatal depression |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breastfeeding-linked-to-lower-risk-of-postnatal-depression20 Aug 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, used data drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a study of 13,998 births in the -
Home from home: minor moves make major differences | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/home-from-home-minor-moves-make-major-differences26 Feb 2014: Data extrapolated from BHPS (1991–2008) and its successor survey, Understanding Society, which is run from the University of Essex’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and funded primarily by ... the Economic and Social Research Council, can -
Greece: austerity takes a heavy toll on public health | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/greece-austerity-takes-a-heavy-toll-on-public-health21 Feb 2014: The authors of the paper acknowledge that Greece’s healthcare system was in need of reorganisation well before its economic plight came to the world’s attention. -
Migration: Britain’s hospitable past | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/migration-britains-hospitable-past10 Feb 2014: For others, a moral and political principle of freedom of movement accompanied this more expedient economic rationale. -
Why a disaster may not be disastrous | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-a-disaster-may-not-be-disastrous3 Oct 2014: The team included controls for the average disaster fatality risk and non-disaster geographic characteristics, such as economic conditions, crime rates and the quality of education. -
What 19th-century women really did | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-19th-century-women-really-did8 Mar 2014: This data is seen as crucial for understanding the economic role of the household, and individual household members, within the wider formal economy. -
First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-atlas-of-inuit-arctic-trails-launched10 Jun 2014: For centuries, indigenous peoples in the Arctic navigated the land, sea, and ice, using knowledge of trails that was passed down through the generations. Now,
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