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The Church in Court

What is a medievalist doing writing about the nineteenth century? The Church’s dealings with society stretch out long fingers through the centuries. The Reformation changes created a Church of England...

G. R. Evans | 30 Sep 2021

How crises such as COVID-19 disrupt the flow of management knowledge – and why it matters

New research on how management practitioners come to use management knowledge in the different relevant contexts of their working lives permits us to better understand the impact of major crises, such...

Timothy Clark, Marlieke van Grinsven, Stefan Heusinkveld | 29 Sep 2021

Why Legal Titling Is Not an Economic Answer to Terrorism

Ongoing violence is an unfortunate fact of life in many communities around the world. In Afghanistan, two decades of state-building followed decades of internecine civil war. Despite significant investments...

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ilia Murtazashvili | 28 Sep 2021

Envisioning and Defining 6G Together

We expect 6G to hit the market around 2030, but we don’t really know what 6G is yet. This is a question our industry needs to answer in the next ten years. Can we find the right answer to satisfy...

Eric Xu | 28 Sep 2021

What can multilingualism do for the study of literature?

David Gramling, author of The Invention of Multilingualism, answers the above question, and many more, following his book launch on 20 September. What similarities do you see between the languages...

27 Sep 2021

What the arts has to offer economics

Researching the book Economics of Visual Art, I came across a drawing in the Tate Archives. It is a “concept sketch” for Tate Modern. It was drawn in 1991 — a full nine years before the building...

Amy Whitaker | 27 Sep 2021

Lockdown Metaphors

In 2020, I was struggling to negotiate my academic work (teaching remotely online and finishing the production process for a new book) while homeschooling three children and mourning the loss of a dear...

Andrea Brady | 27 Sep 2021

Capitalism: What We Can Learn from Economists of the Past

Our book, What Capitalism Needs, spells out what capitalism needs, drawing on the ideas of great but unduly neglected economists of the past including Friedrich List, Joseph Schumpeter, Maynard Keynes and Albert Hirschman—but with most attention being paid to Adam Smith and Karl Polanyi.

John A. Hall, John L. Campbell | 24 Sep 2021

Tyranny and Political Debate

People shouting from soap boxes, newspaper vox pops on news programmes, social media all come to mind when we think of the public political sphere. Democracy, it is generally accepted, needs the public...

Aoife O'Donoghue | 24 Sep 2021

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

The past few years have witnessed some astounding advances in artificial intelligence, with high profile breakthroughs such as diagnostic software now in use and autonomously diagnosing disease, algorithms...

Ryan Abbott | 21 Sep 2021

The Secret of Poetry

When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation...

Antony Rowland | 21 Sep 2021

One Currency, Two Markets: China’s Attempt to Internationalize the Renminbi

The Chinese government is trying to internationalize the RMB (renminbi), and this gives rise to at least a few questions. What are the real reasons for this action? Will it succeed? What are the factors...

Edwin L.-C. Lai | 21 Sep 2021