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Ecosystems Overload

10 Dec 2019

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...

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A forest on fire.

Climate change to shrink economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike unless Paris Agreement holds

19 Aug 2019

Study suggests that 7% of global GDP will disappear by 2100 as a result of business-as-usual carbon emissions, including over 10% of incomes in both...

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Left to right: Hilary Cooper, Simon Szreter, Ben Szreter

Cambridge historian and his family members announced as joint winners of one of the biggest cash prizes in world economics

10 Jul 2019

A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for...

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How to tend an economic bonfire

01 Mar 2019

Business, enterprise and employment are flourishing in Greater Cambridge, but housing and infrastructure are struggling to match the jobs boom, and...

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Military spending did not 'crowd out' welfare in Middle East prior to Arab Spring

24 Jul 2018

Findings dispute 'guns versus butter' narrative as a major factor behind the Arab Spring. Researchers caution against uncritically applying lessons...

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How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth

03 Jul 2018

The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages. Written neatly inside...

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Mend the gap: solving the UK’s productivity puzzle

28 Jun 2018

When it comes to the output, education and wellbeing of the Great British workforce, our towns, cities and regions exist on a dramatically unequal...

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The boss of me: myths and truths of self-employment

20 Jun 2018

While self-employment may not be the labour market remedy some want to believe, new research is revealing its global prevalence and intergenerational...

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Energy

‘Carbon bubble’ coming that could wipe trillions from the global economy – study

04 Jun 2018

Macroeconomic simulations show rates of technological change in energy efficiency and renewable power are likely to cause a sudden drop in demand for...

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Women working in the rice paddy fields in Odisha, one of the the poorest regions of India

Tracking inequality in India: the story of a pioneer

04 Jul 2017

India’s booming business centres and gleaming shopping malls mask a grimmer reality. While one section of the population gets richer, another section...

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Listen: Cambridge experts talk post-Brexit options for the UK

04 Apr 2017

On 30 March, the day after the 'triggering' of Article 50 began the official Brexit process, a group of University of Cambridge lawyers, economists...

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Opinion: Four ways to understand Theresa May’s Hard Brexit Speech

17 Jan 2017

An economic historian offers her initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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