Beyond price: Trust me, I’m commercial All markets are based on trust. Confidence is everything. Yet...
Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Why do smart people make dumb financial choices? This lecture...
Enclosures of the Mind: Governing the Intellectual Commons We are living in an age of remarkable intellectual property...
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...
Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are devastating neurological conditions...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
How to get ahead in commerce: The sure-fire ways to make money One school of thought says that markets are just casinos...