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Businesses have cashed in on our carelessness
We don’t usually draw lots to allocate duties or privileges, but what if we did?
And what can we learn from its victory?
Since the pandemic, work and leisure time are blurring for many former office workers
When it comes to academic papers, the line between fraud and substandard science can sometimes seem a little… academic
In a more productive country, citizens could enjoy longer retirements, more consumption and a better class of rollercoaster
Oxford has become a focal point for some unsettling protests. What can it learn from pleasant, walkable Freiburg?
You’ll never clear the decks. Just do the best you can with the time allotted to you
Museums often document economics in abstract. It doesn’t have to be that way
If we want to figure out what’s true, we need to get into the habit of presuming we might be wrong
The next polls in western democracies will be a prime opportunity for bad actors
Well-prepped countries have fared no better in the past. But there are ways to adapt
About 2,000 years ago, Roman soldiers buried a million nails in a four-metre pit. Why?
Nobel laureate Robert Lucas used stories to explain how policymakers might engineer a recession — or cause shortages and inflation
Not all transformative technologies destroy jobs. Some help to level the playing field
Is AI the latest threat to livelihoods? That depends on society
The story of how a budget airline wrongfooted the ONS remains a cautionary data lesson
What the 19th-century economist Robert Giffen can tell us about the price of sliced bread
Forcing people to do extra mathematics at the age of 17 obscures a far more pressing need
It’s to do with something called ‘availability bias’ and you’re probably affected
When the pandemic struck, sales of Catan soared as people looked for something fun to do at home
About 8 per cent of UK students went to private school, but nearly 20 per cent of economics students did
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone loses their friends and goes bankrupt
The UK home secretary’s ‘dream’ of deporting asylum seekers is an eerie 21st-century echo of an ancient idea
They don’t have the reflexive cynicism of many adults, but that’s a strength, not a weakness
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