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The Bank of England & The Duke of Wellington.

Opinion: Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday

03 Aug 2016

Michael Kitson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how the Bank of England may try to give the economy a boost.

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Pound coins

Opinion: Brexit shock has caused a sterling crash of historic proportions – here’s just how bad it is for the pound

11 Jul 2016

Alain Naef (Faculty of History) discusses Brexit's impact on the value of the pound.

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Coins (cropped)

Willingness to give to charity depends on how inferior or superior you feel

22 Mar 2016

An individual’s likelihood to donate to charity – and the amount they donate – depends on whether they feel superior or inferior to others, which has...

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UK online alternative finance market grows to £3.2 billion in 2015

17 Feb 2016

The UK online alternative finance sector grew 84% in 2015, facilitating £3.2 billion in investments, loans and donations, according to a new report...

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George III gold guinea

A portrait of a banking calamity

14 Mar 2013

For many years Paul Kosmetatos worked in the City of London’s financial sector, where he became fascinated by the unfolding of periodic crises. Today...

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Money.

Keynes comes home to Cambridge

08 Nov 2012

A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University...

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Mike Marin.

The crisis of shareholder primacy

19 Mar 2012

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial...

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Debt: an enduring human passion

No such thing as a free lunch?

10 May 2011

The process of giving and receiving (and being in debt) is an inescapable part of human experience. From sub-prime lending and student loans to organ...

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Coins

Links between money and happiness explored

17 Dec 2010

The question of whether money buys happiness comes up frequently in discussions of subjective wellbeing in both scholarly debates and casual...

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