Africa's political big game
Politicians and Poachers
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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 fanciful, musical work: " To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well...
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Chinese dress up doubt in suit and tie
Dragon in a Three-Piece
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Illuminating insights into economic models of distinction
Empirical Modeling in Economics
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Inside the insiders' realm
What is an Exchange?
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Change still races through power lines
Transforming Electricity
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Lost on the road to Wigan regeneration
The Spatial Economy
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What to expect, and then the blips
The Conquest of American Inflation
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Heart of the Orient
Bazaar India
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Where the sums add up to a way out of poverty
Labouring to Learn
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A will to change the global cycle
Global Labour Flexibility
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Can I get a witness?
Money for old muck bags A row over a bag of manure led to a lucrative expert witness commission for the University of Leeds' colour chemistry analytical services division. After six years of research...
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Unrecorded legacies
Thomas Balogh was economic adviser to the cabinet in 1964-67. A Hungarian emigre, he became both confidant and eminence grise to Harold Wilson, who made him a life peer in 1968. In the 1970s, he...
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Talent pool that served both sides of the iron Curtain
Where does the secret service go to recruit spies? Cambridge, where the KGB used to hunt too. Kam Patel went there to meet an intelligence expert Christopher Andrew leads the way to Corpus Christi's...
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Cambridge's secret collections
"There are several collections here that are closed and not on any list: we cannot even declare that we have them," says Alan Kucia, senior archivist at Churchill College, Cambridge. Built in 1974 to...