wealth

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Boom and bust? Millennials aren’t all worse off than Baby Boomers, but the rich-poor gap is widening

16 Nov 2023

A study of over 12,000 people in the US, comparing Baby Boomers and Millennials, raises concerns about Millennials’ diverging financial gains.

School children in Great Yarmouth sitting in the cloakroom

Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health

15 Nov 2022

How rich or poor young people think they are compared to their friendship group is linked to wellbeing and even bullying during the shift between...

Opinion: What do our spending habits reveal about our romantic intentions?

16 Feb 2016

Eric Levy (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how thinking about meeting a new partner can impact our shopping decisions.

Bernardo Bellotto (Canaletto) A View at the Entrance of the Grand Canal, Venice, c.1741 Oil on canvas, 59.3 cm x 94.9 cm (detail), Credit: © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich

24 Mar 2013

The Industrial Revolution is seen as the spark that lit Europe’s economic prosperity. In her analysis of markets over many hundreds of years...

Give and take: the changing landscape of world aid

05 Oct 2012

A book by Cambridge University geographer Dr Emma Mawdsley provides a major analysis of the ways in which the ‘rising powers’ of the BRICS and others...

How luxury became a four-letter word

27 Jun 2011

A new series presented by Michael Scott examines the history of luxury and the origins of our ambivalent attitude to the finer things in life.

Cambridge students spur entrepreneurship in Rwanda

11 May 2011

A group of Cambridge students are spearheading an initiative to create an Entrepreneurship Week in Rwanda to help lift the country out of poverty.

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...