Good counsel
Socially-driven entrepreneurs are partnering with a new breed of corporate lawyer with interests that go beyond bunce for shareholders. Nina Boeger writes. UK company law makes two things clear. First, …
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Work: a situation vacant
Job’s worth: being cost effective in producing and consuming ever more things. We need a new defining idea for political economy, writes Richard Douglas. During Cheltenham Gold Cup week I …
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Austerity stripped bare
The tightened belt is still in fashion but it’s a style that is transparently thin says Geoff Tily. For years the logic of austerity has governed UK economic policy. In …
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Property in Ireland: another bridge too far
The bust after the 2007 property price boom in Ireland has left its scars. As a second bubble is swelling Peter Manley warns that people shouldn’t lose out again to …
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Don’t bring the house down
Real estate is a load bearing part of the UK economy. Alexander Tziamalis warns how cracks are appearing. London real estate is in a downward spiral, for the first time …
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Enough is enough
The cost of the UK’s inadequate income support is huge. Paul Nicolson writes. The UK has never been generous with its benefits system. In 2008, Tim Harford of the Financial …
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There has always been an alternative
The NHS crisis is a crisis of neoliberalism writes Laurie Laybourn-Langton This year, the National Health Service turns seventy, finding itself in a world radically different to that which welcomed …
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Educating neater
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck confesses putting failure into teaching market failure and laments the scope available in A level economics courses. Market failure is one of my favourite concepts to teach. Nestled …
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Our house
In 1985 London’s Victoria and Albert Museum put on an exhibition entitled National characteristics of design. It looked at various aspects of manufacturing, fashion and other sectors in eight leading …
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Symptoms of growth addiction: bad housing, bad health and Donald Trump?
In this issue we focus on the economics of two issues that have dominated our politics for decades: health and housing. The health of the NHS is maybe our …
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