Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

11 May 2017
Paula Serafini explores the paradox of Trump's wealth, the lack of social mobility, and voting patterns in contemporary America. Commentators tend to agree on two main reasons…
10 May 2017
Professor Faguet explains why political economy research on Latin America is on the verge of a major breakthrough, based on deep collaborations between historians,…
09 May 2017
What’s at stake: at odds with the conventional wisdom of constant factor shares, the portion of national income accruing to labour has been trending downward in the last…
09 May 2017
Europe has its confidence back. After a series of setbacks, Europe’s centre has held in the face of an electoral assault from both political flanks. But renewed…
08 May 2017
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds? All too often, critics speak of neoliberalism as a coercive, external force lying somewhere ‘out there’ in…
08 May 2017
In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF), the new element of research impact was understood in very linear and direct terms. Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Laura McLeod, Stephanie…
05 May 2017
Artificial intelligence is much talked about, but what exactly is it? Georgios Petropoulos explores the origins, methods and potential of machine learning. Artificial intelligence…
05 May 2017
Kristian Krieger, Manuela Kropp and Roland Kulke explore the opportunities provided by the model provided by energy cooperatives in Europe. Across the European Union, populist…
04 May 2017
Despite the mounting obstacles, Alice Roberts and Saul Becker explore how universities can play their traditional roles as knowledge brokers in the post-truth era. James Baldwin,…
04 May 2017
Gopa Kumar Thampi on the emerging lessons from the development sector's turn towards social accountability. There is a clearly a surge in social accountability initiatives…