Older man trouble
The State of Working Britain
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Threats to take the floor
The London Stock Exchange
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An economist's guide to what might happen next
Forecasting Non-Stationary Economic Time Series
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Why did a chicken cross the globe?
On the Edge
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Labour and the death of work
Reclaiming Work
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Moving out of the red
The Chinese Economy in the 1990s - Economic Change in China, c.1800-1950
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How to really wake the Indian tiger
India in the Era of Economic Reforms
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Where theory and reality meet
Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Volume One - Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Volume Two
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist with a fascination for Venice: " An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from...
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The search for a grain of truth in a pile of rice
Could a falling grain of rice help historians explain the outbreak of war or a stock-market crash? Some physicists believe it could. Mark Buchanan reports In 1934, the historian H. A. L. Fisher came...
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Is this a hard act to follow?
The culture of higher education has changed much over the past half century, but with the full introduction of the Human Rights Act, the sector could face its greatest challenge yet, argues Dennis...
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What the human rights act will mean for legal education
Traditionally, the discipline of law in England, as reflected in the practice of judges, advocates, scholars or teachers, has been sceptical, pragmatic, and inductive and it is hard see why the Human...
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What the human rights act will mean for social policy studies
The first implication of the Human Rights Act for social policy teachers relates to teaching and learning strategies. Acquiring knowledge of the relevant articles could encourage more rote learning...
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What the human rights act will mean for decisions on human fertility
The one in six couples who are infertile are among those awaiting the coming of the act. They will ask whether they are denied their human rights by the National Health Service or the private clinics...
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Peace, prose and alchemy: Change the world and you'll win the prize
Small proze for man, a giant leap for mankind. Laureates reveal what winning meant to them Joseph Rotblat won the Nobel peace prize in 1995 in association with the Pugwash Conferences on science and...