The Economics of Oil and Gas
Xiaoyi Mu
The availability of low-cost energy from fossil fuels – in particular oil – has been the driving force behind postwar global economic growth, such that the petroleum industry has some of the world’s [...]Read More
General Equilibrium
Yves Balasko
The theory of general equilibrium offers a simplified guide to how real economies function: it describes how price, demand, supply and production interact in multiple markets and tend towards a state [...]Read More
The Price of Football
Kieran Maguire
Professional football is the most popular sport in the world in terms of both spectator attendance and television viewing figures. As its popularity has grown so has its monetary value. Kieran Maguire [...]Read More
Seeing Ourselves
Raymond Tallis
In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human [...]Read More
The Size of Government
Vaclav Rybacek
The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation. Václav [...]Read More
Slipping Loose
Martin Westlake
The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future [...]Read More
*Book of the Month* The Price of Football
As Barcelona announces its 2019 profits and overtakes Real Madrid to become the world's richest club, ever wondered how these calculations are made? Kieran Maguire explains how to read and interrogate football club finances.
Rethinking EU Governance Podcast
George Papaconstantinou, author of Whatever It Takes and Panicos Demetriades, author of Central Bank Independence and the Future of the Euro discuss their new books and the future of EU governance.
Ray Tallis at the Philosophy Now Festival, 18 January
Ray Tallis will be speaking at the Philosophy Now Festival, Conway Hall, London on Saturday 18 January.
