Monthly Archives: October 2011

The historian Mark Mazower’s excellent book The Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century chronicles how the objective of building a better society from the ruins of the First World War was swept away by division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale.  … Continue reading →

Teaching is a noble profession but given the damaged reputation of economics, following the financial crisis and the world economy teetering in the brink of  another Great Depression, should there continue be a Nobel Prize for Economics? Strictly speaking, there … Continue reading →

The end of the London Metals Exchange (LME) Week during which the great and good of the mining and metals industries, as well as related financial institutions, met up to discuss the issues that affect this global sector marked an … Continue reading →