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  • 22 May 2020
    Paul Crosthwaite

    Panic, Economics, and Pandemic

    A viral pandemic is spidering across the globe, and so too is an emotional one. Fears and anxieties spread and mutate in whispered late-night conversations and flashing updates, working their own damage on bodies and minds. There is deep fear of the virus itself, of course, and fear as well of its economic impact. The current crisis has rendered the economic laws that govern […]

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  • 13 May 2020
    Adam Oliver

    Behavioural Science and the UK’s Initial Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

    In the early stages of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s strategy to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, much was made of, and much criticism was directed at, the advisory input from behavioural scientists. However, less notice was taken of the fact that some of the advice offered by behavioural scientists (or seemingly, just one behavioural scientist – […]

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  • 12 Mar 2020
    Francine McKenzie

    GATT: A Despised Do-Gooding Organization

    The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions.  These days, the charges that are made against the WTO include that it has overstepped its authority, that it impedes the ability of members to set their own trade policies, and, paradoxically, that it has been unable to deal effectively with China.  The recent […]

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  • 7 Feb 2020
    Martin Drechsler

    The Conflict between Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation: How can it be Solved?

    Martin Drechsler, author of 'Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation', discusses how we can help solve the conflict between agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Photo by 童 彤 on Unsplash

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  • 5 Nov 2019

    Strategic Human Resource Management

    The website of GE mentions: “the relentless quest for progress has fueled 130 years of innovation. We believe that our people are our most powerful catalysts for growth and innovation”.  At Google, the HR team, has revolutionized HR the same way Google has revolutionized search engines. HR is seen as a business partner and all […]

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  • 1 Jul 2019
    Ruth Towse

    How digitization impacts the creative economy

    In the ten years since I wrote the first edition of A Textbook of Cultural Economics, the cultural sector – the arts, heritage and cultural industries, jointly known as the creative industries – has been revolutionised by digitization and, as with other revolutions, things have changed in unimagined ways. Nowhere has this been more evident […]

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  • 18 Apr 2019
    Frank J. Garcia

    Trade, Trump, and Brexit

    As an American, I can’t help but read the slow-motion drama that is Brexit through the lens of the 2016 Trump election. Each is a referendum on a half-century of internationalist and neoliberal policies at home and abroad, and on the political establishment (both liberal and conservative) responsible for implementing them. Both have made it […]

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  • 25 Feb 2019
    Frank J. Garcia

    Consent and Coercion in Trump’s Trade Policy

    Frank J. Garcia, author of Consent and Trade, on US trade policy under the leadership of Donald Trump

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