Schools brief
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Hidden figures
Why does low unemployment no longer lift inflation?
The Phillips curve, the logic of which guides central banks today, has become oddly flat
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When big isn’t beautiful
What more should antitrust be doing?
The first of a series on areas where economists are rethinking the basics
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Softening the blow
Climate adaptation policies are needed more than ever
People are already suffering from catastrophic losses as a result of extreme weather events like cyclone Amphan
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Not-so-slow burn
The world’s energy system must be transformed completely
It has been changed before, but never as fast or fully as must happen now
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Bad times
Damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising
It will go far beyond drought, melting ice sheets and crop failures
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Where nature ends
Humanity’s immense impact on Earth’s climate and carbon cycle
Much needs to be done for the damage to be reversed
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Projections of the future
How modelling articulates the science of climate change
From paper and pencil to the world’s fastest computers
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The problematic politics of climate change
Why tackling global warming is a challenge without precedent
The first of six weekly briefs looks at the history of efforts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions
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Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche
The prophets of illiberal progress
Terrible things have been done in their name
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Rawls rules
Three post-war liberals strove to establish the meaning of freedom
Berlin, Rawls and Nozick put their faith in the sanctity of the individual
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The exiles fight back
Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter formulated a response to tyranny
Their lives and reputations diverged, but their ideas were rooted in the traumas of their shared birthplace