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Risk regulation has gone too far
Released on: 6 March 2009
Contributor(s): Professor Bridget Hutter
We need to go back to first principles to examine the real nature of risk and its possible effects on society, argues Professor Bridget Hutter.
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Costing the climate
Released on: 18 February 2009
Contributor(s): Dr Sam Fankhauser
Economic motives rather than ethical concerns will be ultimately what prevents runaway climate change, argues Dr Sam Fankhauser.
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Good intentions perverse incentives
Released on: 4 February 2009
Contributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano
Professor Luis Garicano explains what the current financial crisis and boring, defensively played football matches have in common
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Death in the modern age
Released on: 9 January 2009
Contributor(s): Professor Emily Jackson
Professor Emily Jackson examines the meaning of death and the moral and legal questions raised by euthanasia.
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