The arrogant disregard with which global corporations treat national governments is nothing new, as our business and management book reviews show. The clash of interests was identified decades ago....
A substantial majority of the British public would like to see student grants restored across the United Kingdom as they are being in Scotland. They also share the Cubie committee's view, since acted...
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
The Genetic Inferno - Mendel's Demon
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Roy Harris applies a Dionysiac breathalyser to the puzzle of creativity. "In the illusory babels of language," wrote the American sculptor Robert Smithson...
The Silent Takeover
Captive State
Creative Industries
The Silicon Valley Edge
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations
World War 3.0
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a comic novel by an Englishman best known as a playwright: "The sky grew darker and darker as the...
Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough - The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Furniture from British India and Ceylon
'If we were disaccredited, it would be the accrediting agency that looked foolish.' Harvard's departing president Neil Rudenstine tells Auriol Stevens about the challenges of running a world-class...