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Business school teaching case study: how electric vehicles pose tricky trade dilemmas

How should western policymakers use subsidies and tariffs to encourage drivers to switch? Probe the arguments with this ‘instant teaching case study’

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What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about generative AI

When the spreadsheet launched in 1979, it was a bewildering piece of software. People had no idea what they were looking at. A computer screen, filled with a grid of numbers? As Keith Houston explains in his new history of the pocket calculator, Empire of

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Foreign investors are right to see China as a trade more than a long-term bet

Country faces clear and present danger of falling into middle-income trap

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Cautionary Tales – Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)

As US troops approached a prison camp in Nazi Germany, they could hear agonized wailing. The stench of rotting flesh filled their nostrils. Moments later they discovered a pile of smoldering corpses, alongside emaciated survivors. Next to the concentratio

logo.png  By NB  Mar 2, 2024