Compassionate capitalism
Making Capitalism Work - Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below
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Fading reds, absent greens
The East European Economy in Context
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Dial C for competitor
Telecommunications Competition
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Spectres at the feast of reform and renewal
China's Provinces in Reform
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Continental drift on monetary union
European Economic Integration
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to recognise a book from its opening, comes from an eminent economist who was posthumously institutionalised: "The annual labour of...
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Probable cause?
Should juries get the help of probability theory to guide them in complex trials involving quantitative scientific evidence? David Balding considers the case for and against A suspect is linked to a...
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Edible ecriture
We need to eat to live, but some also live to write. Terry Eagleton explains why the two acts are inexorably intertwined The link between eating and writing has a venerable pedigree. Francis Bacon...
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More trouble than it's worth
Martin Trow explains why he thinks the Dearing report is part of the problem facing higher education and not the solution Far from being a solution to the problems of British higher education, the...
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Awards
Royal Society of Chemistry The Harrison Memorial Prize has been awarded to Helen Fielding, a lecturer in the department of chemistry at King's College, London, for her contribution to the dynamics of...
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Honorary degrees
Brunel University DSc: Peter Williams, executive chairman of Oxford Instruments plc, former lecturer at Imperial College. DSocSci: Clare Spottiswode, director general of Gas Supply, former chairman...
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Appointments
University of Sunderland David Puttnam, film maker, life peer, has been appointed chancellor of the university. Euopean Society of Human Reproduction and Embyology Lynn Fraser, professor of...
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An unbroken century of eclectic commitment
UCL established Britain's first psychology department 100 years ago, but Marya Burgess says not everything has changed since then. This week University College London celebrates the centenary of its...
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Trapped in a time warp
Not coming to terms with the freedoms of the 1960s has cost the Tories dearly, argues Richard Cockett In July 1967, an ambitious young television producer called John Birt staged one of the more...
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Consumers on the critical list
The rise of the articulate consumer could spell trouble for the medical profession, argue Simon Williams and Michael Calnan No television schedule is complete without its medical drama. Yet this...