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Features. Regulars. Archive. From Cambridge to Kyiv: the economics of war and recovery. ... Many times, I’ve observed our president asking the relevant economic questions without the help of an economics professor.

Indeed, for Martin Daunton, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, taxation goes to the heart of fundamental questions. ... It causes fewer economic distortions and raises more money with less damage to the economy.

And it would be funny, except that decolonising the curriculum is important, exciting and invigorating. ... That’s not necessarily demoting the individuals who are already in the canon or on the curriculum.

Coyle has long advocated replacing or supplementing GDP, currently our main measure of economic success. ... Diane Coyle’s latest book, Markets, State and People – Economics for Public Policy, examines how societies reach decisions about the use and

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Issue Archive. The University's alumni magazine. Reinvigorating the art of the spirited essay, CAM brings together the best of Cambridge thought and debate. Published three times a year,

In a world where many feel that the economic and political odds are stacked against them, a new groundbreaking institute has been launched in Cambridge with the aim of finding solutions ... We live in an age of unprecedented disruption. More and more

Fast forward 35 years and Vira’s work reaches across disciplinary boundaries: economics, geography, public policy, conservation and international development. ... The question in my mind was whether the discipline I was specialising in, economics,

During the 1980s, with economic upset in developing countries, the World Bank brought in structural adjustment, moving housing policy towards a neoliberal, capitalist system based on market price and competition. ... We need to align planning, economic

Download. The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart.

Dasgupta Review. A new report on the economics of biodiversity could help set the agenda for the UK Government’s 25-year environment plan. ... Produced by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the report describes nature as “our most precious asset” and

Dr Victoria Bateman. Director of Studies in Economics, Caius. Trade is no longer a specialist issue: these days, we’re all talking about negotiation and tariffs. ... Trade Talk is hosted by journalist Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad Bown

In brief. Janeway Institute. The new Weslie and William Janeway Institute for Economics has launched with a remit to transform economic research.

Identify and admit the best. Second, we must have the systems in place to identify and admit the very best undergraduates, including those who have suffered real socio-economic and educational

Most importantly, though, I want them to think of fascism as an intellectual and cultural, rather than a purely political or socio-economic, phenomenon – to look beyond the unemployment figures of

This programme, run by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is designed to bring together impartial academic research on the changing UK-EU relationship and, crucially, to make it accessible ... and economic consequences,” she says.

In 2017, I began a PhD, investigating the social, political and economic impact of digital tools used to help refugees find their way through migration and settle into their new homes.

It will enable Cambridge to offer greater financial support to students who have experienced socio-economic and educational disadvantage, and enable investment in actively attracting students from under-represented groups.

These pro-sumers – people who are more actively involved in the economic process – are driving things such as the sharing economy, where we can directly trade spare assets with each other ... Growth must happen to maintain the west’s economic system

And this, we know beyond doubt, is at the heart of social and economic transformation.

That is an amazingly achievable and realistic goal for dementia treatment, which would have a huge social and economic impact.”.

Tweet of the term. “Jobs, skills, wages, equality, economics, politics, society, contentment, unrest, conflict and everything else summed up in one paragraph” – Jonny Aldridge (Homerton 2008) on CAM’s take on

You can feel the anxiety leave the room.”. Left to right: Emily Chung, St John’s, MPhil Economic and Social History; Raphaël Kalfon, Trinity, Master’s Mathematics; and Gabrielle Kurniawan,

By contrast, when refugees are given the opportunity to establish microbusinesses (something not always encouraged, due to governmental fears about temporary settlements becoming permanent) it creates economic activity and helps people

while the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) went to Christ’s, the London School of Economics (LSE) to Peterhouse, Bedford College to Newnham, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical ... London School of Economics cricket team in Cambridge,

just GDP as a measure of economic prosperity.

There’s a growing sense that a lot of the economic orthodoxies of that period have been extremely damaging, especially in light of the global financial crisis and what’s happened ... The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of

Accessibility isn’t just physical, but socio-economic,” she says, explaining that spoken word can reach out and touch all parts of society, “the homeless; those recovering from addiction.

But after 2000, curriculums changed. There is a feeling today that Germans have atoned for, and overcome, their antisemitism.

That intersectionality – taking into account human factors such as ethnicity, sexuality and economic background – is vital to understanding feminism in 2018.

There are many state precedents (governments have long used economic sanctions as an instrument of statecraft) but – and this is my fourth proposal, aimed at non-state actors – it may even

Happily, he soon got back on track, reselling bicycles to freshers while an undergraduate studying economics.).

Grants will be awarded to undergraduate teams developing inventive technology- and engineering-driven ideas which could boost economic growth in the developing world.

But in playing out these questions in the private lives of her characters, Austen reminds us that economics is not just a matter for opinion and discussion, but of real life.

It has supported ground-breaking research into treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, addressing global biodiversity loss and gaining a deeper understanding of the economic challenges of African nations.

But now Hughes’ Economic and Social Research Councilfunded Ready or Not study is tracking several hundred pupils from Reception to Year 1, using a seven-point questionnaire that asks how they

It’s a book by an economist based on detailed observation of how specific markets work, and it paints a much richer picture of what economics is about than you’d

They will study a challenging and engaging multidisciplinary curriculum that will prepare them for undergraduate study in arts, humanities and social sciences subjects.

There is a techno-utopian idea that capitalism will solve the problem for us, without any need for fundamental social and economic transformation. ... I worry about the techno-utopian idea that capitalism will generate technologies that will solve the

Professor of Regional Transformation and Economic Security, at the Department of Land Economy.

Being curious, together.” She would go on to co-write the curriculum for genomic counselling training in England.

The economic struggles of towns and regions that once drove the Industrial Revolution are well known.

How so, dude? This heavy new study shows that beyond the drought, it was, like, the entanglement of environmental, economic and technological factors that led to the explosive rise of professional

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Public Service. Private Good? From rank incompetence to corrupt practices, procurement is under scrutiny in all walks of life. What needs to change if we are to get it right? WORDS. PETER

The Great Famine was about finance – not just food. Dr Charles Read, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of History and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics. ... First, economically: when Ireland joined the European Union in

The wider economic context is important here too. While for older generations work was a guarantee of financial security, enabling you to buy a home and pay the bills, that’s

The challenges are manifold, from the fundamentals of chemical processes – structural changes arising from each charge of a battery, meaning that some degradation is inevitable – to the realities of market economics.

Features. Regulars. Archive. The Cambridge-Africa partnership in action. In northern Kenya, camels are vital to the economic and social fabric. ... The economic, social and health costs of these diseases are vast.

If the special relationship has survived domestic hostility, economic rivalry and outright war, can anything break it?

The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart.

Our commitment to delivering social and economic impact is part of the unwritten social contract with the bodies that fund our research. ... Much of this activity has no direct economic benefit to the University; instead, ideas created at Cambridge