Global economic institute creates partnership with Cambridge economists
15 February 2013In the wake of the global financial crisis, a new partnership plans to shake up economic thinking to reflect a rapidly changing world.
Austerity Britain: it's déjà vu all over again
16 January 2013The last 100 years have seen several governments introduce austerity measures to try to balance the books. Duncan Needham, a Phd candidate in the Centre for Financial History, compares past and present, concluding that current public spending cuts are inhibiting the growth we need.
Keynes comes home to Cambridge
08 November 2012A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University Press.
Fraud claims and board games: What now for regulation and governance?
02 August 2012The author of the report which laid the basis for British and international corporate governance codes will be the guest speaker at a conference which asks what the future of such measures should be.
The crisis of shareholder primacy
19 March 2012If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial institutions. Gates Scholar Mike Marin explains why.
Open and transparent
18 October 2011An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of searchable data and the tools to interpret that data. Founded by Cambridge economist Rufus Pollock, OKF has big ambitions in fields that range from sonnets to statistics.
A Greek tragedy in health?
10 October 2011Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.
