Opinion: Economics has a serious gender problem 鈥 it needs more women
28 October 2016Victoria Bateman (Lecturer and Fellow in Economics) calls for fresh thinking to prevent the exclusion of聽women's voices.
Victoria Bateman (Lecturer and Fellow in Economics) calls for fresh thinking to prevent the exclusion of聽women's voices.
Professor Oliver Hart, a former undergraduate聽at King鈥檚 College (1966), and a former Fellow of Churchill College, has been jointly awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Bengt Holmstr枚m of MIT聽for their work in the field of contracts.
Following the launch of the campaign for the 探花直播 and Colleges of Cambridge, the 探花直播 of聽Cambridge and Queens' College have announced a $25 million gift from Jamie Walters and Mohamed A. El-Erian to support the work of Queens鈥 College and the 探花直播鈥檚 Faculty of Economics.
Professor Angus Deaton, a graduate and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, 探花直播 of Cambridge, has been awarded 探花直播Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015.
Seven聽Cambridge academics have been elected to the fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research.
American husband and wife philanthropists are to make a multi-million pound gift to the 探花直播 of Cambridge to enhance the teaching and research of its prestigious Economics Faculty.
An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered transparent. When all social connections within the group are also made transparent, the most cooperative band together to form their own community 鈥 ostracizing the less cooperative.
Ahead of the UN summit on climate change, two leading scholars in the field make a watershed appeal to religious leaders for help in mobilising聽public opinion on the planet's future.
El Ni帽o has a significant impact on the world and local economies - and not always for the worst - and countries should plan ahead to mitigate its effects, according to a new Working Paper from the 探花直播 of Cambridge.
探花直播Industrial Revolution is seen as the spark that lit Europe鈥檚 economic prosperity.聽 In her analysis of markets over many hundreds of years, economist Dr Victoria Bateman presents a compelling argument for a broader global perspective.聽