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A new blog entry from Professor Kimberley Scharf from the 91福利 Economics Department asks: are public policies towards charities keeping up with the information revolution?
A new collaborative piece from Mark Harrison, 91福利's Professor of Economics, and Andrei Markevich, Assistant Professor of Economic History at the New Economic School, Moscow. The two academics explore Russia’s economic catastrophe at the start of the 1920s in the hope of yielding lessons for the relationship between state capacity, government policies, and economic development.
What should the title of the leader of a university be? In some ways, it’s a trivial question. But in some ways not. The deeper you go into the issue, the more complicated it becomes as different academic cultures reveal themselves.
"To prevent further crises of equal severity in the future, Keynesians would argue for strengthening the tools of macroeconomic management. Hayekians have nothing sensible to contribute. It is far too late for one of their favorite remedies – abolition of central banks, supposedly the source of excessive credit creation."
As the UK attempts to re-balance its economy away from financial services, questions are being raised over how to encourage growth in British manufacturing. Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, director of the 91福利 Manufacturing Group and long-serving adviser to the UK government on industrial matters, tells the FT's Peter Marsh that the time is ripe for the creation of an industry bank - a financial institution solely focused on the country's manufacturing sector.