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Lessons from history
Jobs, work, pay & benefits
• 11 Oct 23
Why has it taken so long for stagnant pay to become central to UK politics?
Banks & financial markets
• 28 Sep 23
Why did Lehman Brothers fail?
Attitudes, media & governance
• 26 Sep 23
How did Adam Smith understand self-interest?
Inequality & poverty
• 22 Sep 23
Does Adam Smith’s theory really imply today’s inequality?
Attitudes, media & governance
• 18 Sep 23
Principles of motion: how should policy-makers think about human behaviour?
Banks & financial markets
• 07 Sep 23
Swiss banks now and in the global financial crisis: is this time different?
Banks & financial markets
• 04 Sep 23
Why did the global financial crisis of 2007-09 happen?
Attitudes, media & governance
• 20 Jun 23
Adam Smith: what is the role of honour in society?
Trade & supply chains
• 19 Jun 23
Globalisation and backlash: how has world trade evolved over 300 years?
News
• 16 Jun 23
Adam Smith: an economist for his times – and ours
Data stories
• 08 Jun 23
300 years of history: In numbers
News
• 28 Apr 23
In time of war
Aid & international development
• 09 Mar 23
What is the likely impact of the earthquakes on economic growth in Türkiye?
News
• 10 Feb 23
Back to normal?
Recession & recovery
• 06 Feb 23
Three centuries of UK business cycles: what lessons for today?
Attitudes, media & governance
• 30 Jan 23
The US mid-term elections of 2022: what influenced the outcomes?
Communicating economics
• 16 Dec 22
What’s worth reading over the holidays?
Energy & climate change
• 12 Dec 22
Levies on energy profits: can they solve the UK’s cost of living crisis?
Banks & financial markets
• 28 Nov 22
Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Energy & climate change
• 09 Nov 22
How have economists thought about climate change?
Nations, regions & cities
• 20 Oct 22
The BRICS countries: where next and what impact on the global economy?
Banks & financial markets
• 11 Oct 22
Banking crises: who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and why?
Attitudes, media & governance
• 26 Jul 22
Does public trust in government matter for effective policy-making?
News
• 24 Jun 22
Summer of discontent
Banks & financial markets
• 23 Jun 22
Why are cryptocurrencies crashing?
News
• 10 Jun 22
Picture this
Public spending, taxes & debt
• 20 May 22
Should the UK impose a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits?
Banks & financial markets
• 17 May 22
How did the first Monetary Policy Committee members pursue their mandate?
Banks & financial markets
• 06 May 22
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at 25: where next?
Nations, regions & cities
• 21 Apr 22
How might Scottish independence affect Northern Ireland’s economy?
Trade & supply chains
• 13 Apr 22
Sanctions on Russia: what are the ramifications of this new trade war?
News
• 25 Mar 22
War stories
News
• 25 Feb 22
Tearing up the rulebook
News
• 11 Feb 22
Scotland’s past and future
Data stories
• 08 Feb 22
Are we really witnessing a ‘great resignation’?
News
• 14 Jan 22
Money: back to the future
Business, big & small
• 20 Dec 21
What future for the champagne industry after the pandemic?
Banks & financial markets
• 10 Dec 21
Why has the price of Bitcoin risen/fallen in the past day/week/month?
Energy & climate change
• 09 Dec 21
How have economists thought about the environment?
Energy & climate change
• 01 Nov 21
Is it time to let go of our dependency on economic growth?
News
• 25 Jun 21
Twenty-twenties vision
Data stories
• 11 Jun 21
Is football coming home?
News
• 04 Jun 21
Work in progress
Banks & financial markets
• 24 May 21
Are we in the middle of a tech bubble?
Pensions, savings & investment
• 10 May 21
Does the stock market reflect the economy?
News
• 30 Apr 21
Northern Ireland at 100
Nations, regions & cities
• 29 Apr 21
What explains Northern Ireland’s long-standing problem of low productivity?
Recession & recovery
• 15 Apr 21
How has coronavirus affected social capital in the UK?
Aid & international development
• 22 Mar 21
Are there differences in Africa’s responses to Ebola and Covid-19?
Charities & volunteering
• 17 Feb 21
Is coronavirus distracting us from other pressing social concerns?
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