Gordon's dilemma
Chancellor Gordon Brown is again concerned about pay outstripping productivity ... what on earth will he do? He should "name and shame" the companies, sectors and company directors who are "over-...
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Laddismo foot on the clutch
DURING a seminar on transport and society in 1993 three of my students worked out a project that had us hastening two kilometres across town to a pub called the Graf Eberhard, named after the 15th-...
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Embryo from two seeds of thought
FOR TONY BLAIR, whose political instincts are inclusive and unsectarian, it is risky to attempt the inherently divisive project of designing an ideology under the rubric of "the third way" between...
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Don's Diary
Monday This is going to be a good week. I have to go into the university only once and have four whole days at home to work. Bliss. Of course, before I do any real work there is some marking, letters...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classic study of "playing the game": "Tuna Puna at the beginning of this...
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Speaking Volumes: Microcosmographia Academica
Graeme Davies on Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica . I have in my bookshelf a presentation copy of Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica, which bears on its...
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The pox that scars Eden
Life in the Balance
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Woven memories of inflamed lands
Muslim Identity and the Balkan State - Europe's New Nationalism - Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood - Honest Broker or Perfidious Albion?
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At times down, but never out
Understanding Decline
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More known than understood
Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science
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Old fingers on very new buttons
Information and Communication Technologies - Telecom Reform
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Operators of a joint account
The World Bank and Non-Governmental Organisations
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Damming evidence
Taming the Waters
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Worldly view of early US
Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume One
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Guide to trade without blocks
International Trade