These agents aren't rational
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Statistical dribble that never hits goal
The Economics of Football
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Precision forecasts without precision
Innovations in Pension Fund Management
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Nowadays, it's good to gamble
The National Lottery and its Regulation
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The taxing task of tinkering
Just Taxes
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Prudence and precedents that fostered sense of duty
Adam Smith and the Classics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a failed academic turned biographer: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written...
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Laurie Taylor column
AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT From The University of Poppleton. YES, ITISTRUE. The government intends to raise tuition fees to a level that will leave most graduates in serious debt until well after their...
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Leader: Would Newman see his Idea in Labour's vision?
If the government set out to create a set of proposals that would divide the academic community, it could hardly improve on yesterday’s higher education white paper. For every researcher who approves...
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'We've no jobs. Education is our only hope'
Palestinian students are struggling to complete studies as financial support falters. Alex Klaushofer reports. As Israelis prepare to go to the polls, The THES looks at the impact of conflict on...
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'Some people won't shake my hand because I'm Israeli'
Israeli students believe that many Britons fail to understand the complexities of the Middle East crisis, reports Chris Bunting. For Uri Enoch, the most depressing thing about Israel's general...
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Time to make Nazis history, or is there life in Hitler yet?
The Third Reich has been rehashed and repackaged so many times that some are starting to think Britons have an unhealthy fascination with it. But, says Huw Richards, experts believe there is still...
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Swash and buckle of an officer and a historian
He's spent 25 years on the battlefield, but the closest that historian Brigadier Richard Holmes has ever come to live action is on TV, says Adrian Mourby. Richard Holmes arrives at his club in St...
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Our city, our future, in our hands
The Taliban is out and western aid agencies have flooded in. But are they there to help Afghans or to pursue their own homegrown agendas? Leonard Stone reports. The 8.30am flight from Dubai to Kabul...
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How 80,000 chemicals are waging sex war on us
Barnacles are undergoing sex reversal, male birds are taking over female nest-sitting duties, the male-to-female ratio in alligators is skewed and even humanity is experiencing changes. Martin Ince...