The Currency of Management: What Managing Money Teaches Us About Managing People The implicit ‘currencies’ behind managing real people will be discussed...
Killing Us Softly: How Demographics Drive Global Economics Basic economic accounting suggests that economic growth depends on productivity...
Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics An exploration of the remarkable consequences of using Boltzmann's 1870s...
Introduction to Taking and Giving: Roles in Philanthropy Old and New Philanthropy has always been a feature of public life from...
Is the growth in the emerging economies additional or are we growing more slowly? Speakers look at the limits to world economic growth from...
Brain Reconstruction: the next biomedical breakthrough, or a biological impossibility? How close are we to true brain reconstruction? Professor Jack...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Whither to the Creeping Paralysis? Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose...
Emerging Markets and Climate Change This lecture considers the economic impact of climate change on...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...