A friend has finally, at the age of 50, learned to swim. It took him that long to find a good swimming teacher. Swimming teachers are usually good swimmers. But the very factors that make such people ...
What was the issue that prompted America’s bosses to take to the streets, man picket lines, and even hire a band to drown the speeches of their opponents? Was it the threat from North Korea? The abuse ...
I recently came across an essay which I wrote as an undergraduate in the 1960’s. My politics professor had asked me to tackle the thesis that the incumbent government would almost always be re-elected ...
You will not be receiving Christmas presents from me this year. Instead I am sending you a copy of the American Economic Review for 1993. It contains a fine article by Professor Joel Waldfogel ...
On March 27 th, the lights flickered – and stayed on. That was the first day of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements. It was also the end of a story which will for ever exemplify the relative ...
Scotland and England became a United Kingdom (under a Scottish monarch) in 1603. Parliamentary union followed in 1707. In the century and a half that followed, Scotland experienced extraordinary ...
In a remarkable book written thirty years ago in the wake of the accident at Three Mile Island, the organisational sociologist Charles Perrow explained that in complex environments catastrophic ...
‘Who said it?’ – identify famous quotations – is a standard part of every Christmas Quiz. But who didn’t say it? For example, Humphrey Bogart, in Casablanca, didn’t say “play it again, Sam”. The ...
Over a million people in Europe have signed petitions against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. In Britain, a YouGov opinion poll showed that those who thought the plan would be bad ...
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