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The Twitter age is about to chalk up its first success in the grey world of corporate accounting. It has been reported that the European Union will seek to make large companies disclose the taxes they…
The tax debate offers insight into the possible trajectories of capitalism. Organised tax avoidance does not create anything of social value, but encourages concentration of wealth in relatively few hands…
The outgoing Bank of England governor Mervyn King has presided over a huge economic crisis. His parting gift is the claim “a recovery is in sight” that the UK might achieve economic growth of even 1% this…
Evaluating the creditworthiness of countries is far from an exact science, yet the influence of credit ratings agencies is extraordinary. Recently, the UK government’s debt rating has been downgraded by…
Some four and-a-half years after the banking crisis that has resulted in massive public debt and a deep austerity program, the UK government has finally unveiled its Financial Services (Banking Reform…
Since 2010, many European governments have adopted austerity policies in an attempt to reduce the budget deficits and increases in government borrowing that were caused by the 2007/8 financial crisis…
If you have PODS – Post-Olympic Depression Syndrome – don’t fear: the Paralympics are almost here. It looks as though this will be first Paralympic games to be a sell out, with an unprecedented demand…
Rudisha It was perhaps billed as the hors d'œuvres before the main event. But it was far from a second billing with David Rudisha winning the 800m in a World Record (1:40.91). It was perhaps the greatest…
I was never in doubt that Bolt would regain his 100m Olympic title. But what made this race intriguing was the will he / won’t he win hype surrounding it - especially after the Jamaican trials. Bolt wanted…
I had my ticket, jumped on a train and who would have thought that the day would have ended up with Gold, Gold, Gold. I was at the morning session of the athletics. The Olympic park is I have to say an…
Over the last 100 years there have been countless outstanding athletic performances, such as Ed Moses, Daley Thompson, Michael Johnson, Emil Zatopek, Roger Bannister, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Cathy Freeman…
You would think starting a track race with a pistol would be a simple thing – but no. It appears that no longer will there be a ‘B’ of the Bang but a ‘P’ of the Ping as a new starting pistol is reportedly…
It appears that my guide to the 100 m has turned into a trilogy. My last two postings covered some stats about sprinting 100 m in 9.58 s and the what the limits of 100 m performance may be based on historical…
Yes the opening ceremony is on Friday night but Olympic competition quite literally kicked off yesterday with the GB women’s football team beating NZ 1-0 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. This was the first…
So this is quite an interesting if slightly pointless question, but nevertheless it pops up every now and again…so let’s give it a stab and see what the research says. The 100 m has progressed from a stately…
You write some papers on the mechanics of Bolt’s sprinting and what happens? - You end up doing media stuff. The questions I’m always asked are “how fast can Bolt run” or “how fast can humans run 100m…
As I’m writing this I have just finished a radio interview about Usain Bolt and it is now nine days nine hours and 33 minutes to go before the start of the Olympics. What will the opening ceremony be like…
The role of Barclays bank in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) continues to dominate international financial media. The bank has already attracted fines from regulators in the UK and…
Executive remuneration is out of control in the United Kingdom. The final report by the High Pay Commission concluded that “there is rarely a link between directors’ incentives and the way a company performs…
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
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Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
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PhD student of LGBT+ and Education at The University of Essex, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex
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Lecturer (assistant professor), University of Essex
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Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Essex Business School, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer of Sociology, University of Essex
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Management and the Futures of Work at the Essex School of Business, University of Essex
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Curator, ESCALA, Art & Special Collections, University of Essex
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Senior Research Officer, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor in Law, University of Essex
