Economics

Former minister in charge of higher education says Theresa May could have won single market concessions 

After years of suppressing the renminbi, China strives for a global currency, says Anna Watson

Spanning 200,000 years of human trading, this study considers the influence of technology and the fallout of global interconnectedness, says Juliet Webster

Book of the Week: lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms, says Julia Powles

Book of the week: From the black stuff to books, who gets the goods in a sharing and streaming era? asks Paul Bernal

Authors suggest something has gone badly wrong with economics as an academic discipline

Jonathan Mirsky on a bleak but believable view of rampant corruption taking a country to the dogs

Evidence of positive effect of retakes ‘weak’, concludes Dutch academic

A prominent educational leader who served as president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988 has died

Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett

But research shows Yale University graduates are most productive in Congress

University senate opposes terms of proposed $10 million deal with businessmen to set up centre for the study of free enterprise

Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most affiliated Nobel prizewinners this century

Vice-president for academic affairs at École Polytechnique says French-taught courses are ‘hard to sell’ to international students

Ronald Daniels says universities have not fully comprehended ‘profound disillusionment’ within society

Two scholars at US institutions secure prestigious award              

Victoria Bateman on why the Enlightenment took root in Europe and how it helped to spur economic expansion

A network of students and academics aims to promote public economic literacy as well as reform the curriculum

Richard Murphy is enthralled by an insider’s story of a secretive profession that intensifies inequality

Citation analysis reveals potential winners of science’s highest accolade

Humorous tribute to academia’s unsung heroes will be based outside a Moscow university

Seeking feedback from the well networked is better than gaining comments from famous scholars, a conference hears

Book of the week: If all-seeing ‘miracle’ tech is making the decisions we must demystify the tricks, says Danny Dorling

Book of the week: The decision process behind the euro has left the EU in an untenable position, says Lucia Quaglia

Jonathan Grant and Alexandra Pollitt look at how discrete choice modelling might be able to work out what type of impact is most valued

Higher university enrolment worsens the average quality of non-graduates and leads to lower wages, conference told

Centre for Macroeconomics survey finds support for ‘institutional change’ in profession

Book of the week: Investing in individuals delivers personal and national prosperity, Richard Murphy finds

Institutions need to adapt their courses to account for how climate change is altering business, argues former MBA director

However, dean at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh says the number of female leaders on the continent is rising

An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes

Optimism and realism vie in a study telling us where we are, where we’re going and how best to get there, says Jon Turney

Danish academic says that building a knowledge economy is no longer a ‘dominant wish’ for country leaders

Book of the week: Why are those pushed into food poverty then stigmatised and shamed, asks Lisa Mckenzie

Victoria Bateman is swayed by a persuasive history of our global financial order and how it needs to change

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

Decision to move senior lecturer off core module raises further concerns about economics teaching in universities

Richard Murphy seeks more justification for the authors’ arguments on taxation of the wealthy

Philanthropic donations to universities seen in the US can be replicated in Europe and the Middle East, argues former University of Chicago president Hugo Sonnenschein

Book of the week: Facts and figures can get you only so far when it comes to political change, says Gordon Marsden

But government project may not capture ‘value added’ by some universities and courses, critic warns

Research shows continuing lack of historical and critical perspective in most bachelor's degrees

Study suggests saturation point of higher education expansion is some way off

People contemplating a criminal career might do well to stay in and do their homework

Ellie Bothwell blogs from the opening of the British Council’s UK-China Education Policy Week in Beijing

Book of the week: With people vulnerable to bias, lack of diversity might be better tackled at organisational level, Victoria Bateman says

Book of the week: Angelia Wilson on a call for us to take seriously our political responsibility for global poverty

A prominent academic expert on banking, mortgages and insurance has died

Economists are finding new ways of learning about the past – and learning from the past

Danny Dorling on a study of predatory forces and questionable practices

Book of the week: Economic instability is inevitable – what matters is our efforts to limit it, says Victoria Bateman of L. Randall Wray's latest book

Investment pays off for the economy, finds groundbreaking US study

A small tax hike for the cream of 1 per cent could fund college for the poorest, says Danny Dorling

There’s a choice to be made on R&D investment, says Richard Jones, and we must get it right

Marcus Chown on a brief, critically important guide to economic literacy

US economists talk about attempts to liven up teaching of their subject with lyrics from popular music

Liberal thinking, teaching quality and pastoral care are his priorities for private university

The responses to a UK-wide survey show how life chances are diverging, argues Danny Dorling

Richard Murphy praises a bold effort to halt tax-dodging by the 1 per cent

A new paper finds that more than half of economic studies are unreproducible. But there could be even deeper issues with the discipline, says David Matthews