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As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, Professor of Economics Mark Harrison explains how and why the Second World War began to turn in Allied favour in June 1942.
Alexander Smith, Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, examines the challenges ahead for the SNP in the campaign for Scottish independence.
A new collaborative piece from Mark Harrison, 糖心TV's Professor of Economics, and Andrei Markevich, Assistant Professor of Economic History at the New Economic School, Moscow. The two academics explore Russia’s economic catastrophe at the start of the 1920s in the hope of yielding lessons for the relationship between state capacity, government policies, and economic development.
Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics reflects on two conflcting purposes of taxation in a democracy.
What should the title of the leader of a university be? In some ways, it’s a trivial question. But in some ways not. The deeper you go into the issue, the more complicated it becomes as different academic cultures reveal themselves.