The panel will debate the nature of the economic system itself. Does the crisis reveal fundamental flaws in capitalist e…

The panel will discuss how an individual person’s characteristics (skills, experience, family background) and their soci…

There is a fierce debate between advocates of a government stimulus for the economy and those who say the longer-term co…

This session turns the spotlight on the subject of economics itself. Economists will try to debate honestly the weakness…

The first of an annual series in which Bristol City Mayor George Ferguson looks back on an historic first year in office…

Some say the baby boomers have bankrupted the youth of Britain. That ever-spiralling house prices put home ownership onl…

Over the past six months ‘recession’ has given way to ‘recovery’. With many economic figures showing signs of improvemen…

What is the state of the world economy five years after the crash? Daniel Franklin, editor
of the annual Economist publi…

Tim Harford is senior columnist for the Financial Times, author of many books, the latest being The Undercover Economist…

The idea that the world’s centre of economic gravity is moving to the BRIC nations – Brazil, China, India and Russia – a…

There is greater pressure than ever for public services to become more efficient as budgets are cut, and more responsive…

Recent decades have brought a big increase in inequality, not just in the UK but in other countries too. Many people ins…