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Shopping

Spending for smiles: money can buy happiness after all

07 Apr 2016

Money really can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds a study based on 77,000 UK bank transactions.

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Africa: the coming revolution

21 May 2014

Africa’s fastest-growing economies could offer a radical alternative to the West’s current reliance on national capitalism according to an academic...

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Want to avoid another Rana Plaza? Pay more for your clothes

24 Apr 2014

On the anniversary of the collapse of Bangladeshi garment factory Rana Plaza, in which 1,129 people died, Dr Kamal Munir says the West needs to re-...

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Six reasons why … good bankers will always turn bad

28 Feb 2014

They want to be good, they promise to be good, but will they be good? Cambridge Judge Business School faculty Professor Raghavendra Rau, Dr Bang Dang...

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Ha-Joon Chang

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism

21 Mar 2011

Author of the recently published 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, Dr Ha-Joon Chang studies how international markets succeed and fail...

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Men Shopping for Clothing Accessories

Fashioning the value chain

01 Jan 2009

Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.

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