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These days, if investors ever want a break from fretting over the euro zone or US jobs, they can always look east. China’s bubbling debt problem has become a source of genuine anxiety and a potential threat…
Seemingly every day, the news provides examples of the deadly consequences of weapons falling into the hands of criminals, pirates, terrorist groups, rebels, and oppressive regimes. A natural reaction…
President Vladimir Putin has a shiny new toy, the Winter Olympics, and he wants to hold a party to show it off. His “friends” are jealous and either want to dash the present from his hands or refuse to…
Fifty years after the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the band is still the benchmark for Anglo-American relations. With their swift rise to fame in the US, they started the so-called British…
People who win large amounts of money on lotteries tend to switch their political allegiances towards the right of the political spectrum and become less egalitarian, joint UK-Australian research has found…
Much has been made about the power of social media to improve democratic participation. But as with medicines and drugs, no heavily used technologies are without their side effects. This is particularly…
Seeing the live National Theatre broadcast of Coriolanus brought home once again how we’re all glued to screens now: our eyes rarely far from and seemingly hypnotised by the lure of the light emanating…
Pinning down definitions of the words “culture” and “arts” has always been notoriously difficult. But over the past 60 years, fast and profound social, economic, technological and cultural changes have…
Google’s decision to sell Motorola to Lenovo could easily be misread as a sign of defeat. In fact, it is win-win. And it spells trouble for struggling competitors Blackberry and HTC. Google originally…
The extent to which the banking industry is dominated by those who attended private schools has been revealed. A study found 60% of leaders in financial institutions were privately educated. Only 7% of…
If Google chairman Eric Schmidt is to be believed, the automation of jobs will be the “defining” problem of the next two to three decades. At a debate at Davos 2014, he warned that the constant development…
The tide is changing in our understanding of old age. For a long time, behavioural scientists have thought that old age is associated with cognitive decline such as memory problems, and difficulties in…
Debate over the development of shale gas in the UK and its potential benefits has intensified in recent weeks as the prime minister visited a fracking site in Lincolnshire to make announcements over how…
Google is set to pay £1.9 billion (US$3.2 billion) for Nest, a manufacturer of “smart” thermostats and smoke alarms. Though Nest is still relatively unknown, the buzz around smart homes – where all manner…
The online grocery market has been growing in the double digits in the UK and is on the rise all over the western world. Retailers are fighting to get their share of the business and spend big on launching…
The controversial visit to North Korea by Dennis Rodman has provoked much comment, most of it critical of the former NBA basketball player for lending the gloss of his stardom to a brutal dictatorship…
There has been lots of talk lately of a “tech bubble”. The NASDAQ composite index - a widely observed benchmark of the high-tech sector - last week reached the level of 4000 for the first time since the…
It seems there is no end to the smartphone litigation saga. A long-running US court case just reappraised Samsung’s violation of Apple patents. Apple has now been awarded almost US$930m in the dispute…
In the latest big scandal to hit the banking sector, regulators around the world are investigating whether foreign exchange markets have been rigged. At least seven major banks have been caught up in the…
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Warwick
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Houlden Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, University of Warwick
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Warwick
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Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Business, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy (Brussels School of Governance), Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, University of Warwick
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Professor in Political Science, University of Warwick
