Posted by Olga Suhomlinova in School of Business Blog on March 27, 2014
Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most frequent question I have had to field during the past month, for I am Russian. What I could have written about this Wales-size […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aivazovsky, Angela Merkel, Census Data, Conflict, Crimea, Demography, Economics, Ethnicity, Federalism, Florence Nightingale, Hilary Clinton, History, Mary Seacole, Military Force, Nationalism, Newarke Houses, Political Economy, Politics, Property Disputes, Property Rights, Pushkin, Russia, Territorial Dispute, Territory, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Toruism, tourism, Venice Commission, Vladimir Putin, War, Wine |
Posted by in School of Business Blog on December 5, 2013
Jo Grady, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the School, responds to George Osbourne’s Autumn Statement, particularly on its proposal to increase the retirement age to 70. Speaking on LBC 97.3 today (December 5th, 2013), in defence of the coalition government’s decision to increase the retirement age to 70, Deputy Prime Minister […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Autumn Statement, Benevolvence, Beveridge, Coalition Government, Economics, Financial Crisis, George Osbourne, House of Commons, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Inflation, Jo Grady, Labour, Lloyd George, Neoliberalism, Nick Clegg, Pensions, Politics, Poor Law, Real Wages, Retirement, Retirement Age, Social Reform, Sustainability, Tax, Trident, Vodafone |
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on December 4, 2013
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying) In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even though water is essential to human survival. Smith’s paradox, at that time, appealed to his contemporaries as little other than a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, Commodification, Consumerism, Consumption, Deregulation, Economics, Environmentalism, Exchange, Georgios Patsiaouras, Goldman Sachs, Marketing, Markets, Neoliberalism, Paradox of Value, Politics, Regulation, Sustainability, UNICEF, Utility, War, Water |
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