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Should Comedians from Minority Groups Base their Comedy on Stereotypes and Slurs about their own Groups?

Should the EU Abandon the Euro?

An Interview with Noam Chomsky

Identity Politics: What is it and why is it problematic?

An Evaluation of The Centrality of Sport to National Identity

Should we advocate for democracy as an innate human right?

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

What’s the big deal about Huawei?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Forgot Johnson and Johnson’s, or Wells Fargo, Huawei has been the most notorious and controversial company of at least the last few years. Boris Johnson’s decision on 28 January to […]

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 Edward Hilditch International Relations, Politics, Quick Reads, 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

The Struggle of Belarus

Reading Time: 4 minutes Alexander Lukashenko has been president since the establishment of the role and the office in 1994, following his election into the supreme council of the now defunct republic of Belarus. […]

September 13, 2020October 1, 2020 Ola Akintola Medium Reads, Politics

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

A Conversation with Professor Dave Donaldson on International Trade

Reading Time: 5 minutes TC: To begin with, I wanted to discuss industrial policy, which has seen a resurgence in the 2020 election cycle, whether that’s in the form of the Buy American plan […]

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Trevor Chow Economics, Medium Reads

What Explains the Global Rise of Populism?

Reading Time: 5 minutes The dawn of civilization established and rooted hierarchies that from the very beginning pigeonholed humanity into various ordered groups, dividing it into extremes of economic, cultural and political power. Indeed, […]

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Maxwell DeLorenzo Medium Reads, Politics

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