Proper gander
Girls are low in numbers. Nigella Vigorosso-Heck demands a recount. Last month the Economist magazine published an article entitled Sample Bias. It argued that women – and particularly schoolgirls – …
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Manifesto Analysis: Has Any Party gone “Post-Growth”?
Economic growth has been the holy grail of politicians for decades and the hook upon which many a policy proposal is hung. Often conflated with notions of prosperity and wealth, …
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The Teller’s Tale
John Kay in an interview last year for The Mint, singled out Handelsbanken as a ray of hope in the banking world. According to Kay, it “had grown quite rapidly …
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Old Wounds
When pride takes a fall it’s the same the world over. After Boris’s election, I caught a little bit of his gung-ho optimism. I began to think it could be …
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Credit Where Credit’s Due
Who gets to borrow at a fair rate is a pernicious inequality. It’s funny how, despite overt concerns, affluent people always find ways to keep the poor apart from them: …
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The Dawning of the Age of Acquisitiveness
In 1969, I was seven years old and largely oblivious to the historical events happening around the world. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, half a million people came to …
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Development Economics: The Loaded Question
Discussing global income inequality in classrooms full of rich kids leads to pencil cases at dawn. Nigella Vigoroso-Heck tells a tale of development economics. In 2018 Oxfam horrified us all …
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Fuck You
How do you win the votes of the duckers, divers and the insecure? I live in affluent West London and ran my own hedge fund business that profited from seeing …
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How to stop the brain drain
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck has an idea. It’s really hard to fuck up a lesson on Game Theory. Even the most didactic teacher would find it difficult not to let his students …
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Global calories
The food on your plate, and how it got there, is the theme for our tenth issue. Food has been an area of conflict at least since the sugar boycotts …
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