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Other lives: Economics teacher who was also an organic farming enthusiast with a smallholding in Shropshire

The climate and cost of living crises make belief in expanding GDPs look as stale as last year’s mince pies. But when central governments rely on consumerism to shore up spending, it will be hard for ‘degrowth’ to gain any traction

Millennia-spanning takes on history, evolution and economics are booming. But who buys these ‘grand theory’ books? And do they actually read them?

From corporate to creative, three students reveal why they took a ‘leap of faith’ and left their jobs to pursue their artistic passions in photography, illustration and animation

Rolling coverage of business as US revises up GDP growth in third quarter to fastest pace since 2021

In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolised the brutal economics of slavery. Two years previously, the Liverpool slave ship Zong had set out from Accra, in present-day Ghana, with 442 men, women and children crammed in its hold.

City Comment: Reality is knocking the rough edges off of Brexit

A study by the Institute of Labor Economics showed that the impact of the Court's decision was "especially large for Hispanic women"

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) (Jessie Appleby) wrote about this last week (as did the Academic Freedom Alliance): The University of Southern California has barred economics professor John Strauss from teaching on campus for the rest of the semester in response to anti-Hamas remarks he made to…

Greens Senator Barbara Pocock – who has a background in economics and industrial relations and formerly worked at the Reserve Bank, in the federal public service and as an academic – has been in parliament only since the 2022 election, But she has already made a mark.

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