Search results

Risk, Equality and Opportunity: The Roles for Government Finance

Adrift and barely floating amidst financial crises, governments claim that...

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Markets, Freedom and Choice

This lecture focuses on the relationship between markets and freedom...

Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics

This lecture is an exploration of the remarkable consequences of...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

Markets in their Place: Moral Values and the Limits of Markets

The aim of this lecture is to be both self...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...