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Category: Quick Reads

“Good Economics for Hard Times” by Duflo and Banerjee

Reading Time: 3 minutes Good Economics for Hard Times is the second general readership publication of the husband and wife, Nobel-prize winning pair of Duflo and Banerjee. Their first book, Poor Economics, published in […]

October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Edward Hilditch Economics, Quick Reads

The Bitcoin Bubble

Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2008 the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin was launched. While still providing a means for exchanges and the store of value, cryptocurrencies have the distinct advantage of being decentralised as opposed […]

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Jeremy Toussaint Economics, Quick Reads

Lessons from the crash and today’s trends in Western monetary policy

Reading Time: 5 minutes The coronavirus pandemic, and the ensuing economic crisis, has provoked unprecedented responses from policy makers, no more so than from central banks. The Federal Reserve’s major actions include purchasing up […]

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Edward Hilditch Economics, Quick Reads

Interview with Oliver Hart

Reading Time: 8 minutes Professor Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics Harvard University. He specialises in contract theory and the theory of the firm, having served as the President of […]

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Trevor Chow Economics, Long Reads, Long Reads, Medium Reads, Medium Reads, Quick Reads

The Rationality of Irrationality

Reading Time: 4 minutes Reinhard Selten, 1994 Nobel prize and founding father of experimental economics, predicted that individuals wouldn’t play the conventional Nash Equilibrium in the Ultimatum Game, better known as a take-it-or-leave-it offer. […]

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Jeremy Toussaint Economics, Quick Reads

The Hyper-Digitalisation of Covid-19

Reading Time: 3 minutes “A reminder that the virus does not discriminate, we are all at risk.” These were the words UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove presented to the public when Prime Minister […]

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Jeremy Toussaint Economics, Politics, Quick Reads, Quick Reads

Carehomes: The timebomb the government won’t diffuse

Reading Time: 5 minutes As a barometer of society’s civilisation, the UK’s care home sector is important.  However, employing more people than the NHS, it is economically and politically important too.  Clear and visible […]

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 Zachary Grassby Economics, Politics, Quick Reads, Quick Reads

Rent-seeking and Inequality

Reading Time: 5 minutes 26 billionaires own as much as the world’s poorest 3.8 billion people – perhaps unsurprising given how little the poor in developing countries own. Inequality is widely accepted as not […]

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 Alexander Man Economics, Quick Reads

Why IP Laws Should Be Weakened

Reading Time: 4 minutes Intellectual property (IP) laws have gathered a lot of press recently, specifically in relation to the cost of drugs and healthcare, as well as the US-China trade war. There is […]

September 3, 2020October 12, 2020 Edward Hilditch Economics, Quick Reads

The Digitalisation of Cash: Key Impacts on the Developing World

Reading Time: 3 minutes Development in the third world is rarely incremental. Instead, countries are often able to skip a stage in the course of development usually taken by an economically advanced nation. A […]

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020 Titus Macdermot Economics, Quick Reads

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