The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
The Beginning and the End: Images of the Universe Creation and Last Judgement, or Big Bang and Gravitational Collapse...