The UK and its universities have a global reputation for academic excellence, with, for example, three (the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and LSE) all in the current top 10 according to the Times Higher Education World University rankings for Business and Economics. For those ...
How Economics Shapes Science, by Paula Stephan (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012), pp. 367.doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12480Glenn WithersAustralian National University and University of New South Wales CanberraEconomic Record
The Bitcoin networkis made up of thousands of devices that mine 24 hours per day. Because the mining reward goes to the first to solve the problem, they are all competing. This competition led miners to create pools to gain an advantage over other miners because they needed more computational...
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was a British economist, best known as the founder of Keynesian economics and the father of modern macroeconomics. Keynes studied at one of the most elite schools in England, the King’s College at Cambridge University, earning an undergraduate degree in mathemati...
papers with the affiliations of "University of Cambridge" and "Cambridge University" would be assigned to the University of Cambridge. Papers with the affiliation of "Wharton School" would be assigned to the University of Pennsylvania, and so on. Background research is conducted to verify that su...
Diane Coyle, an economist at Cambridge University in the UK, says one concern is the potential for large language models to be dominated by the same big companies that rule much of the digital world. Google and Meta are offering their own large language models alongside OpenAI, she points ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. Whil
An example of a long-time perspective is the common habit of upper-class families in England to register their children at Oxford or Cambridge as soon as the child is born, even though he or she will not be attending for eighteen or nineteen years. ...
The authors wish to thank the postdoc programme of the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, which enabled the contribution of Stephanie Begemann to this paper. Interactions with Xianping Jia (Research Institute of Agricultural Economics at Northwest A & F University, China), Jos...
These ‘integrated assessment models’ (IAMs) combine insights from climate science and economics to estimate how industrial and agricultural processes might be transformed to tackle global warming. They’re encoded with knowledge about technologies, such as pollution-free power plants and the cost of ...