Ali Drabu analyses the turbulent political climate in Israel.
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Category: Theory
The Market this Week: 8 October
Gary Mullins reviews the key financial news of the past week and previews the week ahead.
The Market this Week: 1 October
Gary Mullins reviews the key financial news of the past week and previews the week ahead.
The Rise of Factor Investing
Gary Mullins looks at the benefits of factor investing in the current financial climate.
“Grappling” with Feminist IR: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe
It takes a lot more curiosity, combined with a lot more nuanced attentiveness and intellectual stamina to reveal political realities in ways that are truly reliable.
Dabbling in Disaster: Stability through Catastrophe Bonds?
By Matthew Findlay Correspondent, Mathematics Undergraduate After a record hurricane season, investors in catastrophe bonds are counting up their losses. Catastrophe bonds, also known as Cat bonds, are debt instruments that pay attractive interest rates, typically issued by reinsurers to cover their liabilities in the event of huge damages that may be caused by larger but…
Boycott Economics and the Animal Agriculture Industry
By Vidur Kapur Correspondent, Medical Undergraduate “Britain is a nation of animal lovers.” On first glance, this statement has an element of truth to it: after all, we were the first country in the world to pass animal welfare legislation, and some 40% of UK households own a pet. These pets make up a sizeable chunk…
Information Sharing, Security and Cost Post-Brexit
By Kyra Ward, Editor, Economics Student March 29th, 2017 will go down in history as the day the United Kingdom (UK) officially left the European Union (EU), and the European experiment. While it will take two years to finalize negotiations, March 29th will mark the day that Brexit (Britain’s Exit) became official. No matter how Brexit…
Blockchain: A Tech Improvement or Revolution?
By Giovy Drysdale-Anderson Editor, Economics & English Student When Bitcoin first launched, few had heard about the world’s first digital currency functioning on a peer-to-peer system. But since its launch by Satoshi Nakamoto on October of 2008, it has played a major role in propelling us into the age of Fintechs. The various changes to traditional industries…
The Market This Week: Feb 20
By Tom Weston Economics Student Global stock market indices reached new highs this week. The recent rally is largely a consequence of the election of President Trump, with his economic policies – tax cuts, infrastructure spending and financial deregulation – expected to improve economic growth prospects for the US. The FTSE All-World share index broke…
Why we Should be Learning the Radical History of Economics
By Adam Strømme Editor-in-Chief, Economic & International Relations Student As a student of the history of economic thought, i’m almost more comfortable discussing the various points of conflict between various economic theories than the theories themselves. Economics, like no other discipline, has been defined by debate and controversy. And the debates which have raged are far from topical, they…
The Market this Week: 25 September
By Stephan Maier Editor, Economics Student Continuing from last week, the FED continues to dominate market sentiment with chair Janet Yellen speaking to the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. US equities, despite sliding on Friday, rose by 1.2% over the past week, welcoming the increased certainty of one rather sure rate hike this year in December, should…
