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Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich

24 Mar 2013

The Industrial Revolution is seen as the spark that lit Europe’s economic prosperity. In her analysis of markets over many hundreds of years...

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Money4web

Global economic institute creates partnership with Cambridge economists

15 Feb 2013

In the wake of the global financial crisis, a new partnership plans to shake up economic thinking to reflect a rapidly changing world.

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Money.

Keynes comes home to Cambridge

08 Nov 2012

A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University...

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Chinese frontier guard at the Manzhouli-Zabaikalsk border

The life of borders: where China and Russia meet

06 Nov 2012

A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where...

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Crops Growing

Unlocking the agricultural economics of the 19th century

03 Oct 2012

The Corn Returns – market data from the 19th century and beyond – represent a valuable resource for economic historians looking at the emergence of...

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New Delhi from Jama Masjid's tower

India in the Global Age

10 Sep 2012

An India Cambridge 'summit' will take place on Monday 10 September at the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, to coincide with the Vice-Chancellor's visit to...

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Mike Marin.

The crisis of shareholder primacy

19 Mar 2012

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial...

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Kodak Color Film.

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

14 Mar 2012

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite...

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Rufus Pollock

Open and transparent

18 Oct 2011

An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of...

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Writing, Sunset, Italy.

The Idea of the University

10 Oct 2011

The idea of the university and the roles assigned to universities in the 21st Century will be the subject of a lecture series beginning in Cambridge...

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Lubbock Heart Hospital, Dec 16-17, 2005

A Greek tragedy in health?

10 Oct 2011

Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.

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Crowd Blur

Connection not conflict is the best way forward

20 Jun 2011

In the introduction to a new book Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen urges governments to focus on commonalities rather than differences.

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