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Pound coins

Opinion: Brexit shock has caused a sterling crash of historic proportions – here’s just how bad it is for the pound

11 Jul 2016

Alain Naef (Faculty of History) discusses Brexit's impact on the value of the pound.

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Cementing Ethiopia's progress

Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse

23 Jun 2016

Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan (Centre of Development Studies) discuss Ethiopia's economics growth over the last decade.

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Russian President Medvedev meets with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund

Study finds little change in the IMF’s policy advice, despite rhetoric of reform

24 May 2016

Researchers describe IMF as having an “escalating commitment to hypocrisy”, as study reveals that strict lending conditions have returned to pre-...

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Hailing in the city

Opinion: Uber should take its lead from Thomas Cook’s battle with Victorian Britain

19 May 2016

Christian Hampel (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses Thomas Cook travel agency's battle with Victorian Britain's status quo.

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Opinion: There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler

22 Apr 2016

Anthony Pickles (Division of Social Anthropology) discusses why gambling is a relatively modern invention.

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Internet domains

Overcrowded Internet domain space is stifling demand, suggesting a future ‘not-com’ boom

01 Mar 2016

New research suggests that a lack of remaining domain names with easy to remember – and consequently valuable – word combinations is restricting...

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Shanghai by Night

Opinion: G20 finance chiefs meet as China seeks to make a show of its presidency

29 Feb 2016

Peter Wiliamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the meeting of G20 finance chiefs and the Chinese economy.

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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.

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes: great economist, poor currency trader

14 Jan 2016

John Maynard Keynes struggled as a foreign-exchange trader, finds the first detailed study of the famous economist as currency speculator.

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Raspberry Pi B+

Opinion: How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016

04 Jan 2016

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the frugal innovation revolution that is taking the world by storm.

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Professor Angus Deaton

Cambridge alumnus awarded Nobel economics prize

12 Oct 2015

Professor Angus Deaton, a graduate and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize...

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London Tube strike produced net economic benefit

14 Sep 2015

New analysis of the London Tube strike in February 2014 finds that it enabled a sizeable fraction of commuters to find better routes to work, and...

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