In our last issue, Woon Wong argued that anxieties about the state of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme were unjustified. In this article Bernard Casey1 and
Prompted by Ben Chu’s observations about the state of economics in our July issue, Michael Joffe, Imperial College London, explains what he thinks is really
In the last few days before we went to press the possibility of a second referendum on leaving the EU began to look a possibility,
Recent studies of well-being have often drawn attention to the apparent benefits of a ‘spiritual’ dimension to life. In this comment, Rutherford Card. Johnson of
The depreciation of sterling after the Brexit referendum is often viewed as an exogenous shock to the economy caused by the ‘leave’ vote. In this
When UK public services are under severe strain and even the UK’s Health Secretary admits that the NHS is in serious trouble, Robert Neild argues
In the October issue of the Newsletter we published a piece which focused again on the BBC’s reporting of economic views relating to the UK’s
Sir, Simon Wren-Lewis’s cri de coeur, in the July Newsletter, asks why the media lost interest in academics’ views in the lead-up to the Brexit vote. Could
Dear Sir, This year I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Economics Society at the University of
I welcome Diane Coyle's and Simon Wren-Lewis’ further engagement with the debate on the purpose(s) of economics, which is essential to address if we are
Sir, Andrew Mearman challenges our view, expressed in an earlier article in this Newsletter, that economics degrees have a vocational purpose. We think there is in fact evidence that
Sir, Reading the April 2015 RES Newsletter, we wondered whether it was by design or accident that the articles on ‘The Rise of Elitism in the
Sir, Diane Coyle and Simon Wren-Lewis (Newsletter, April 2015) make a short but important contribution to the debate on economics teaching. They claim that most economics
Sir, The growing movement for pluralism in economics has inspired a group of early-career academics in the UK to form a new network, Reteaching Economics
Margaret Stevens1 reflects on the debate over curriculum reform that we have featured in recent issues of the Newsletter.2 Her article is followed by a brief note from Diane
The promise by the Post-Crash Economics Society in the last RES Newsletter that they will ‘engage constructively’ with their department and with other economists in order to
