Cryptocurrencies

Oonagh McDonald

The advent of new digital currencies has challenged our notions about money, its function and purpose, and our faith in the financial and banking structures that underpin its legitimacy. Oonagh McDonald [...]

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Freedom

Raymond Tallis

The question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have free will [...]

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The French Economy

Frances M. B. Lynch

Despite being invariably misunderstood by anglophones and often derided in the English-language financial press, the French economy is one of the world’s major economies. For many years characterized [...]

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In Defence of Philanthropy

Beth Breeze

Running down “do-gooders” has become a popular pastime in recent years. Journalists and academics alike have lampooned and criticized philanthropists and big donors for their charitable activities, [...]

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The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales

Lorenzo Forni

This lively and provocative look at the tension between economics and politics examines why so many mistakes in economic policy-making are made for political reasons and ignore the economic truths. Using [...]

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Social Preferences

Michalis Drouvelis

This introduction to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – explains in clear, nontechnical language how particular groups of experiments have been used by behavioural [...]

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