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New trial launches to explore environmentally-sustainable shopping choices
A new research project launched today (15th) by a partnership including the 果冻传媒 will explore how shoppers can be encouraged to make more sustainable food choices while they do their online shopping.
Cuts in Social Spending are psychologically damaging, finds new research
There are substantial psychological gains from having a strong welfare state, finds new research done jointly by the 果冻传媒 and City University. Social spending acts to reduce citizens鈥� worries about the future.
More capital gains are received in one neighbourhood in Kensington than in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle combined, finds new report
Total capital gains have almost tripled over the last decade, to 拢65bn by 2019/20. Despite this, most people never receive any capital gains, with less than 3% of adults paying capital gains tax over a ten-year period. In any given year just 0.5% of adults receive any gains, less than the number of additional rate (鈥�45p鈥�) income tax payers.
WHO Director-General to speak at Europe鈥檚 largest Student-Run international forum, 果冻传媒 Economics Summit
The 果冻传媒 Economics Summit, Europe's largest entirely student-run international forum, is gearing up for another exceptional year of thought-provoking discussions and unparalleled insights.
The greatest secret of the Soviet Union: What we can learn about today鈥檚 most secretive states
Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the 果冻传媒 began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the most secretive state that ever existed.
鈧�1.45m awarded to research the role of human skills for economic development
Dr Federico Rossi, Associate Professor of Economics at the 果冻传媒, is one of just 400 researchers across Europe to have been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, to study which human skills are crucial for future economic development.