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Sales of the century
Privatisation and Popular Capitalism
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Testimony to the demise of recovery
Paying For Inequality
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The faithful dispersed
Islam, Globalisation and Postmodernity
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The life and times of black gold
The Political Economy of International Oil
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The politics of fair exchange
Democracy and International Trade
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Unreliable recovery vehicles
Unchained Memories
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Liberte, egalite, venalite
According to political scientist Yves Meny, the recent corruption scandals in France have very deep roots. Anne Corbett reports. As the wave of French corruption allegations known as "Les Affaires"...
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Applied philosophy
Stella Hughes talks to Isabelle Stengers, the Belgian scientist who dared to doubt. In the often acrimonious dispute over the social role of science, few enter the fray having chosen laughter as...
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Puppets on a string
Many of the intellectuals who denounced Hitler and later proved such loud critics of the West were covertly manipulated by one of Stalin's master spies. Stephen Koch explains how he followed the...
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Clever measures
Hans Eysenck takes a look at new attempts to provide a more solid scientific basis for intelligence testing. IQ testing has been extremely successful on the practical level -- predicting academic...
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Withdraw the claws and think
The National Audit Office report on the financial health of higher education institutions in England makes fascinating reading. It shows how they have navigated policy changes resulting in a 44 per...
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Chugging about China
In 100 years, perhaps, the far west of China will be linked to Xian via bullet train, but for the present one makes do with a diesel making its slow, unhurried progress through an endless desert. The...
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Grant us our daily bread
Student Paul Morris asks for enough money to live on but no more It seems the trend among student is to jump on the Labour Party bandwagon and suggest that Tory grant policy is remarkably unfair....
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Too much Merlot, too little Marlowe
One of the effects of the Thatcherian managerial revolution in the new universities has been to create a class of senior-level managers which awards itself generous "remission" from teaching. In many...