economics

An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are...

Patterns in the financing activities of firms could be used as a litmus-test to determine company value, according to a new report.

Africa’s fastest-growing economies could offer a radical alternative to the West’s current reliance on national capitalism according to an academic...

Seventy five years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with its description of starvation in the...

In 2017 a new £1 coin will appear in our pockets with a design extremely difficult to forge. In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came...

Has mathematics become too complex and too dominant a force in modern economics? Yes, says Cambridge Judge Business School’s Michael Kitson; no, says...

The Zimbabwean elections will quickly drop off the international news agenda. In her third and final report, anthropology student Rowan Jones ponders...

In the township of Mbare, anthropology student Rowan Jones finds a complex picture of poverty and propaganda - plus a baffling level of support for...