London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
Metamorphoses – The Terrible Beauty of Change A Fusion of Benjamin Britten's "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid" (Op.49)...
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...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology Scientists sometimes complain about the introduction of religious ideas into...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...