Malfeasance
Intellectual diversity is the form of diversity that seems to be least valued in universities,
Fraught
There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents....
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really c...
The introduction of universal male suffrage in 1907.
The air was filled with obscure ideas
Sanguine.
Peculation.
Mulcted
How far history is distorted by the dubious benefit of hindsight.
Figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.
Assets
Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around t...
What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilizati...
Unlike Britain, France, Italy and Russia, however, Germany did not have access to the international bond market during the war (having initially spurned the New York market and then been shut out of i...
Some problems can only be resolved by network analysis.
It nevertheless remains true that, in most countries for which long-run data are available, stocks have out-performed bonds – by a factor of roughly five over the twentieth century.9 This can scarcely...