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8 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

22 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.

10 Feb 2014: James considered whether population growth was the principal cause of economic change in early modern Europe.

9 Jul 2014: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science recipient, Amartya Sen, received an honorary doctorate in 2009.

14 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

5 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

9 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.

30 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

26 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

10 Feb 2014: For others, a moral and political principle of freedom of movement accompanied this more expedient economic rationale.