Wait and Xi: Crisis and Opportunity in China’s Green Transition
Milena Pek considers the potential of China’s green transformation The ongoing European energy crisis has left the continent in the throes of rising prices, supply…
Gearing up for the ride of our lives
Kyle Herbert explores the effect of the recent fuel shortage on consumer attitudes towards electric vehicles. Electric Shock Chronic UK fuel shortages made headlines in…
Re-centralised Currency: The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Kawshika Puttur explores how Central Bank Digital Currencies are providing central banks with new hope for monetary policy sovereignty. Itcoin The Covid-19 pandemic emergency has…
Love Thy Neighbour: prosperity and reconciliation between North and South Korea
Kang-Hyup Lee explores the potential benefits of lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. On the 25th of June, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea –…
Lockdown: A blessing for our savings?
George discusses the implications of the post-Covid boost in household savings resulting from the decrease in consumer spending during lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic saw a…
The Evolution of Signalling
Estee Lu explores how the term “signalling” has changed over time, transforming the goods we buy, our work ethics and, even, our dating lives. The…
All Else Not Equal: COVID-19, Inequality, and the Role of Policymakers
David Mesa analyses the effects of the pandemic on inequality and the response of policymakers. The effect of the pandemic on income inequality has been…
Preparing for the Storm
Christian Lippitsch explores the myriad methods in which humanity can adapt to climate change. In late 2021, international broadcasters showcased a surprising variation of its…
Financing for Sustainable Development: An Individual’s Role
Serena Grover explores the importance of aligning private capital with public good to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With only a decade remaining…
Education during Covid-19: Stopping a Broken System from Breaking?
Amy Cook discusses the widening education inequalities gap in the UK and how it can be bridged. During Edinburgh’s recent snowfall, memories of cancelled school…
Inequality and the Coronavirus: The Effects on Housing
Sam Tenny explores the disproportionate effects on renters of working from home during the pandemic. The spread of the Coronavirus has highlighted systemic issues ingrained…
Crossing the Heavenly River
Anna McCourt discusses China’s low marriage rate and how the Chinese Communist Party is tackling the problem. The traditional Chinese tale of the Cowherd and…
The World’s Most Unequal Economy
Duśan Repčák explores the story of how a nation focused on equalising income became the world’s most unequal economy – and uncovers fundamental flaws in…
The Parent Trap
Kirsty Vass Payne explores the role of parental leave policy and childcare policy in reducing gender disparities between parents. In the world of policy, the…
Division within Unity
Dila Yalman explores the complex realities of foreign interference into the domestic politics of the divided island of Cyprus. Welcome to the ghost resort of…
‘Flight Shaming’ and ‘Train Bragging’ – on Track for Emissions Neutrality?
In the European Year of Rail, Milan Marcus looks at how European trains can become more competitive with short-haul flights. After decades of growth, international…
Degrowth as the Bridge Between Fashion and Sustainability
Trine Schack Soerensen writes about the detrimental impact of fast-fashion on the environment and human rights and how we, as consumers, can contribute towards changing…
Space: The Final Frontier
It has been 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to transcend the boundary of Earth’s atmosphere, and in that time, our collective…
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
The world as we know it is undergoing a dramatic remaking. We are facing what at times seem like insurmountable challenges – a global public…
Economics (still) has a diversity problem
Hazel Cranmer considers how the discipline should respond to the BLM movement Earlier this year, a movement gained sudden and momentous global attention. The…
Nudging, Sludging and TikTok
Nicole Timmermans explores how TikTok exploits users’ behavioural biases. ‘Digital crack cocaine’ – the words used by a Forbes journalist to describe the Chinese…
What made Zoom zoom?
Amy Cook discusses the possible causes behind the take-off of everyone’s favorite video-conferencing platform. If you’re like me, you probably had never heard of…
Lessons To Learn From The Happiest Economies
Duśan Repčák discusses the economic and social aspects of happiness, with a clear cut focus on the Nordic Model, Latin America and Costa Rica as…
How Much Inequality can Merit Justify?
Rinto, a fourth year economics student, questions the meritocratic foundation of economic inequality. On the 1st November, Boris Johnson declared a four-week long lockdown…
Blackened Blues
David English explores cost estimation by examining the MV Wakashio oil spill. MV Wakashio oil spill In July 2020, the MV Wakashio, a cargo vessel…
Degrowth or Decoupling – Towards a Zero-Emissions Economy
Milan Marcus discusses the relationship between economic growth and reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change It may seem like half a lifetime ago,…
Is enough, enough?
Blair Reid and Ollie Ryder-Green explore the timely rise of Degrowth economics Economic growth has long been touted as the driving force behind human prosperity.…
Corporate Social… Virtue Signaling
Fanni Leppanen breaks down the factors that led to the Volkswagen Emission Scandal and explores innovative ways to solve the question of how much Corporate…
The Declining Nasa Budget: a space oddity
Aryan Jagtap explores the factors behind reductions in space research spending in the US and considers whether extra funding would be worthwhile or a fiscal…
The Price Tag on Survival in America
Alex Avgoustidis investigates the corporate power of Big Pharma and its ramifications for the American people. “I was spending $2,880 a month just to keep…
Airways, utilities, rail… NHS: how far should privatisation go?
Milad Sherzad looks at the story of privatisation in the UK, taking lessons from the 1994 privatisation of British Rail to learn the distinction between…
China
The Go Abroad Economics scheme has been running since February 2015, when a group of staff and students embarked on the inaugural trip to Dubai.…
A Snapshot of the Hong Kong Economy
Robert Campbell shares details about the GAE trip to Hong Kong. ‘Why does President Xi Jinping ’s foot hurt?’ ‘I don’t know—why?’ ‘Because he stepped…