The Nobel Memorial Prize defines high achievement in economics, and it validates the discipline’s claim for scientific authority. And yet, historically, it can be understood as a reflection of domestic …
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Four million British workers are now living in poverty, according to a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), a figure that has risen by over half a million compared …
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The chief executive of the British Academy, Alun Evans, has called for the government to draw more on historical advice from experts. Calling for a more systematic approach to historical …
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Peter Frankopan’s book The Silk Roads changed our perception of history with a shift from the default Euro-centric perspective. Now, as other parts of the world power ahead, he’s urging …
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Western European gross domestic product per capita was about twenty times larger in 2003 than it was in 1700. Geoff Hodgson questions whether greater security in property rights really did …
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