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Building the future with BRICs | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/building-the-future-with-brics17 Feb 2012: The event is also co-sponsored by Cambridge University Press. It begins on 24 February and will bring together figures from the worlds of public policy, economics and academia. ... Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for -
Gender equality in modern times | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gender-equality-in-modern-times1 Apr 2009: For more information, please contact Professor Jackie Scott (The ESRC’s aim is to equip the UK with the knowledge and evidence needed to prosper in a demanding and unpredictable world: ... Issues of international collaboration, knowledge transfer and -
A scriptorium of commonplace books | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/a-scriptorium-of-commonplace-books1 May 2010: Each is a unique collection of knowledge: an intellectual scrapbook, the filofax of its time. ... Daleks’, made from an aluminium bolt and two sewing needles, provided one means of safely applying adjustable levels of pressure on manuscript leaves, to -
Campus radicalism fears too extreme? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/campus-radicalism-fears-too-extreme3 Dec 2008: Earlier this year, the Government issued guidelines for university staff on how to combat the threat of violent extremists targeting university campuses as potential breeding grounds for new recruits. ... The study was based on interviews with Muslim -
Rebels, rulers and rabbit skins | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rebels-rulers-and-rabbit-skins29 Jun 2011: James and John Johnstone, also members of parliament for a short time, become opponents of slavery. ... Professor Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics, a Fellow of Magdalene College, and Honorary Professor of History -
Mussel your way into new exhibition | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mussel-your-way-into-new-exhibition13 Apr 2011: Bivalves are also important parts of marine and freshwater ecosystems around the world. ... The new display and website show the different lifestyles of bivalve molluscs, but also presents information for a general audience on conservation issues. -
Sleepwalking into the Euro nightmare | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sleepwalking-into-the-euro-nightmare9 Nov 2013: Jesper Jespersen. Professor Jesper Jespersen, an economics expert and visiting overseas fellow at Churchill College, will use his lecture ‘A European Nightmare: How could the economists be so wrong on the ... Instead of trusting mathematical models -
It's time to demystify economics | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/its-time-to-demystify-economics15 May 2014: Moreover, even the boundary of the economy – and thus the scope of economics – is determined by ethical and political judgments; for example, child labour used to be a perfectly legitimate object ... And indeed, there are nine ‘schools’ of -
No such thing as a free lunch? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch10 May 2011: Money worries are thought to be partly responsible for a big increase in the prescription of antidepressants. ... Controversially, he will argue that contemporary economics is utopian, as it attempts to ignore or wipe away these inevitable moral aspects. -
Tiger saved by Cambridge Vet School | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiger-saved-by-cambridge-vet-school4 Nov 2010: about the future of this iconic individual, who has helped Shepreth Wildlife Park raise more than £20,000 for wild tiger conservation projects. ... Jackie Demetriou was the lead surgeon for this case. She says that operating on Amba was certainly a -
Wealthier, but not necessarily healthier | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wealthier-but-not-necessarily-healthier7 Jul 2010: The "wealthier is healthier" theory has been a guiding formula for both individual health ministries and many of the global financial bodies that support international development for almost 15 years. ... The current economic crisis has led to great -
Professor Oliver Hart wins economics Nobel Prize | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/professor-oliver-hart-wins-economics-nobel-prize10 Oct 2016: Professor Hart is currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. ... Image. Oliver Hart and the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge. Credit:Search research. -
The crisis of shareholder primacy | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-crisis-of-shareholder-primacy19 Mar 2012: In the 1980s, the City of London pushed for the deregulation of the financial system. ... This means, at the very least, that their managers must have a legal duty to consider the public interest, and have the knowledge and temperament to discharge it -
Post-Saddam Iraq: The first ten years | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/post-saddam-iraq-the-first-ten-years17 Oct 2013: society:. According to the Iraqi government, September of this year accounted for 971 civilian deaths caused by insurgents – the highest for five years. ... by way of everything from history, economics, law and sociology to try and address these -
Digital bargain hunters: optimal online searching | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/digital-bargain-hunters-optimal-online-searching6 May 2015: In academic terms, search is a form of sequential decision making for which there is an optimal stopping point. ... Beyond this point, the further effort of hitting the ‘search’ button once again is not worth the potential for finding a better deal. -
Managed hunting can help maintain animal populations | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/managed-hunting-can-help-maintain-animal-populations21 May 2018: Ulf Büntgen. The international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), studied the hunt of Alpine ibex – ... We are happy that the knowledge gained in -
Tick, tick, tick: the demographic time bomb | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tick-tick-tick-the-demographic-time-bomb3 Nov 2012: The panel, chaired by Chris Giles, Economics Editor of the Financial Times, will include the University’s own Dr Gemma Burgess, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy. ... Brendan Burchell, from Cambridge University’s Department -
A portrait of a banking calamity | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/a-portrait-of-a-banking-calamity14 Mar 2013: A universal bankruptcy was expected, and the stoppage of every banker looked for. ... not least the fact that it broke out in the midst of peace - a rare enough occurrence for 18th century Britain - and relative prosperity. -
London Tube strike produced net economic benefit | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/london-tube-strike-produced-net-economic-benefit14 Sep 2015: one,” said co-author Dr Ferninand Rauch from Oxford’s Department of Economics. ... In economics, this is known as the Porter hypothesis. “For the small fraction of commuters who found a better route, when multiplied over a longer period of time, -
Lost Captain Scott photos dazzle Parliament | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/lost-captain-scott-photos-dazzle-parliament4 Jul 2012: The Institute is, in a very real way, a long-term legacy of the endeavours of Scott and his companions and a fitting home for his photographs.”. ... Thanks to a previous HLF award, the original 1,700 glass-plate negatives of Herbert Ponting's
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