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The Cost of Overcoming Profit Loss
While there have been many capitalistic strides to overcome the profit losses between the 1950s and the 1970s, there’s been […]
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Recession
David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
You might assume that deaths increase in a recession, but that doesn’t necessarily happen.
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Property Crime, Violence and Recession
There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.
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Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast
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Falling Profits as Cause of Recession
As earnings season opens this week, corporate profits are expected to be lower than originally anticipated, according to The Wall […]
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21st Century Challenges: Persistent Poverty in Britain
The Royal Geographical Society is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event at part of the not-for-profit discussion […]
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How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide
Henry G Overman, professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre Last week was […]
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