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How much can one country squeeze out of another? Mark Harrison, Professor of Economics, explores Greece's financial debt.
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.
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.
South Korean universities are pushing hard to make an even bigger impact in the world and, at least to judge by rankings, confidence levels and the state of their campuses, they are clearly succeeding. The South Korean higher-education system is in overdrive although it still has some problems, particularly a fall in tuition fee income, driven by electoral politics and a substantial demographic downturn which will have rapid impacts on the numbers of domestic students arriving at university.
Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explores the link between the fall of economy and the rise of right-wing politics.