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Articles by subject: economics

Zero confidence (by Steven Lukes, November/December 2008 )
Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing . . . no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression
Thinker: Adam Smith (by Nicholas Phillipson, March/April 2007 )
Nicholas Phillipson explains why the ideas of Adam Smith are still common currency today
End Game: Smarty pants (by Laurie Taylor, March/April 2007 )
Laurie Taylor finds he's too clever for his own good
Best of enemies (by Steven Lukes, May/June 2006 )
Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes
History and the Enterprise of Knowledge (by Amartya Sen, Summer 2001 )
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the battleground of history
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