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shared curriculum and assessment norms.” He also praised the high quality of students’ writing, as well as the feedback they received, noting that there was in general a very good range

24 Jul 2023: of this question paper until instructed to do so. SECTION A 1 To what extent has the development of the sciences been driven by economic.

11 Jul 2024: S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funded studies to investigate the economic and environmental consequences of such a war. ... Instead, ecologists and military planners envisioned the period of environmental and economic recovery after WWIII and

The content of the curriculum and the resources made available to students are of high quality and appropriate to the achievement of those aims.

11 Jul 2024: The novel possibilities opened up by their adoption made the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals a necessary tool for economic activity, triggering their consolidated spread in practical mathematics. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study

24 Jul 2023: Do not put your name anywhere in the document. 1. Rational choice modelling is the essence of economics. ... Discuss. 2. Does economics need value judgements? If no, why not?

11 Jul 2024: The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialisation and sustained economic growth. ... And it documents attempts to mobilize its member-states to either economic assistance or environmental protection

24 Jul 2023: universe? How so? 3. Discuss various ways in which political or economic factors have facilitated or. ... and processes? 6. When did sex begin? 7. Does economics operate with an adequate picture of rationality?

11 Jul 2024: American Economic Review, 107 (5): 1–26. 9 February. Seawright, Jason (2016), 'Case Selection in Small-N Research'. ... Economics & Philosophy, 2022: 1–25. 2 March. Haven, Tamarinde L., and Leonie Van Grootel (2019), 'Preregistering qualitative

Organised by Hasok Chang and Jenny Rampling. 11 May ‘Chemistry in the curriculum’. ... Introduced by Keith Taber (Faculty of Education, Cambridge). K. S. Taber, ‘The atom in the chemistry curriculum: fundamental concept, teaching model or

24 Jul 2023: agendas around 1900? 11. How have anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic. ... Is welfare economics right to rely on preference satisfaction? 5. Is rational choice modelling good science?

11 Jul 2024: But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. ... We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural

5 Apr 2021: I think it is safe to predict that in future the place of economics will betaken by psychology. ... the whole theory of economics rests on a basis ofpsychological assumptions’ (BP/B.4.10).

or market- level economics (rather than the financial imperatives of individual scientists). ... Q10. There were few answers to this question, all of which were uniformly weak: students often failed to focus on the concept of rationality as employed in

11 Jul 2024: Created at the end of the eighteenth century, the Calcutta Botanical Garden was an important element of the network of imperial gardens that served economic and political enterprises of the Raj.

11 Jul 2024: This concept of human motivation and purpose brings psychology, physiology, economics, political science and ethics together in one seamless whole, united under the banner of utility.

5 Apr 2021: to varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather than synthetic’ by examiners, stronger essays offered interesting distinctions between military, economic and moral functions of natural sciences, with students prompted to reflect on

24 Jul 2023: practice of the sciences since 1800. 3. What is the significance of economic factors in explaining the development of.

5 Apr 2021: to varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

Warfare states, technology and science in the twentieth century. 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. ... 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. Fifty years ago, in Cambridge, Watson and

11 Jul 2024: 1 March. Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool). Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century.

24 Jul 2023: economic development after World War II, and with what consequences? 8.

11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics) The relevance of Aristotle’s dialectic to his scientific method. ... 11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics). The relevance of Aristotle’s

11 Jul 2024: Mat Paskins (London School of Economics). Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two.

24 Jul 2023: scientific research? 7. Is the economic conception of choice scientifically valid?

Morgan, 2012, New York: Cambridge University Press), where we will find a history of modelling practices in economics. ... 24 January Reiss, chap. 2 – Methodology and Expert Judgement in Evidence-Based Economics: Lessons from the CPI Controversy.

11 Jul 2024: Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical significance.

24 Jul 2023: economics? 9. “The simplest explanation is the best explanation when accounting for.

23 May Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Crosbie Smith (University of Kent) Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology? ... 16 May Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for

24 Jul 2023: 9. In what ways was eighteenth-century natural history an economic practice? ... 9. To what extent did the social and economic status of medieval and early.

The history of disease is a multifaceted enterprise in which social, cultural, demographic, economic and sociological approaches have played a dominant role in recent decades. ... would enable the individual to resist the depersonalizing action of the

24 Jul 2023: Or (b) Can computers make scientific discoveries? 8 Is science a tool for economic oppression?

29 October John Worrall (London School of Economics) A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we ‘need some large, simple randomized trials’?

24 Mar 2023: Thomas Runciman. W.F. Lloyd and the economics of reproduction. What was wrong with John Bunyan? ... James Hutton and 'perfect coal' at the intersection of politics, economics and chemistry.

8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin. ... 20 November Simon Chaplin (Wellcome Library) and Christelle Rabier (London School of Economics) Curing things.

5 Apr 2021: zz. Thus Keynes's economics required a psychological underpinning: for its por-trayal of the economic virtues which, under changed circumstances, would become vices leading to the disaster of the Great ... This economic-historical question was also, for

Empire, 1860-1900 22 November A Flamsteed Celebration (from 3.30pm) 29 November Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics) How not to get causes from probabilities.

24 Jul 2023: and/or economic dimensions of a controversial subject? Is this even possible?

This is presumably due to politics of display or economic constraints; but it is also related to the use of objects. ... 18 February Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science) Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato).

5 Apr 2021: arts or economic history. ... The design and adoption of instruments is influenced by many factors; someare theoretical, others technological, while commercial, economic, political, and socialfactors play their roles, and taste and fashion have an

5 Apr 2021: Economic Consequences of thePeace, Keynes had become an international figure at exactly the same time asEinstein and Freud. ... Freud in Cambridge 19. Thus Keynes’s economics required a psychological underpinning for itsportrayal of those economic

preservation enabled invisible instruments of economic utility to become visible objects of curiosity and, ultimately, politics; and how enslaved African agency both made and contested knowledge in the Atlantic world.

24 Jul 2023: 5. Keynesianism is different from Keynes’s economics. Explain how and why.

3. 9. In what ways was eighteenth-century natural history an economic practice? ... 1. 9. To what extent did the social and economic status of medieval and early modern patients determine how and where they were treated?

24 Jul 2023: 7. Why was science closely linked with ideals of economic free trade in the nineteenth century?

Q11 on how anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic man” was particularly popular, and received some excellent answers, indicating that students like questions that allow them to develop some critical edge.

historians might revise the understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic history.

24 Jul 2023: 3. The ‘health of the nation’ has economic and military significance; evaluate the.

5 Apr 2021: At the level of the individual firm, entrepreneursand managers play a crucial role through investment,production, and employment decisions in the mar-ket—which shape the economic and political environ-ment ... The last remark leads to the third main