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- Blog Post
- Posted 5 years ago
With Britain's Brexit Negotiations in Flux, Let's Talk About No Deal
The reporting of British politics for journalists has rarely been so onerous. Dramatic landscape shifts in the form of u-turns, resignations, and unexpected elections, are now so frequent the lifespan of articles, previously measured in days, are better predicted in hours - sometimes just a handful. Last weekโs rapid-fire resignations of Brexit Secretary, David Davis, and Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, over their intransigence regarding Britainโs Brexit strategy epitomised this difficulty. Following the double salvo, it looked, albeit briefly, as though anything was possible: a vote of no confidence; a leadership election; maybe even a general election. All bets seemed off.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
Top Career Paths: Economic History
For this week's top career paths article, we're looking at the potential careers which are open to those who have studied economic history.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 10 years ago
In Memory of Robert Fogel
We are sad to share the loss of a great economist yesterday. Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate (1993, with Douglass North) passed away yesterday at the age of 86. He was a Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Founding Director of the Center for Population Economics.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
The Current Crisis And Recovery: Conferences And Blogs
For the last couple of years we have been hearing repeated, if sporadic โrumoursโ about the soon-to-be recovery. Different economists have different views on this, and below you can find a list of up-to-date comments about the prospects for the near future, and conferences which are open for registration if you have ideas on this topic to tell the world about.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Armen Alchian: A Great Loss to the Economics Community
Yesterday, the 19th of Feb, the economics community lost another famed scholar โ Armen Alchian, 98, professor emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Nobel Prize in Economics 2012: Winners Announced
โYou canโt be an economist without noticing all the interesting things about how the economy works, it is natural to be interested in it and I have had the privilege to be able to study itโ said Alvin A. Roth answering questions during the unexpected 4am call from Sweden. Together with Lloyd S. Shapley, Roth was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel โ more commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics โ โfor the theory of stable allocations and practice of market designโ. During the award speech the field was described as being โโฆabout economic engineering, [and] how to design certain markets where the traditional market mechanism is expected to not work well.โ
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
The 100th Anniversary of the Birthday of Milton Friedman
On November 16, 2006 the world lost one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Today, July 31, 2012, Milton Friedman would have celebrated his 100th birthday, which makes it perhaps a fitting time to stop for a moment and recall some of his contributions to the field.
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