Expert Comment
Challenges ahead for Salmond on campaign trail for Scottish independence
Alexander Smith, Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, examines the challenges ahead for the SNP in the campaign for Scottish independence.
Greece: Can’t Pay/Won’t Pay?
How much can one country squeeze out of another? Mark Harrison, Professor of Economics, explores Greece's financial debt.
Russia’s national income in war and revolution, 1913 to 1928
A new collaborative piece from Mark Harrison, Warwick's Professor of Economics, and Andrei Markevich, Assistant Professor of Economic History at the New Economic School, Moscow. The two academics explore Russia’s economic catastrophe at the start of the 1920s in the hope of yielding lessons for the relationship between state capacity, government policies, and economic development.
Take it back Nick - charities should care about the cap
Following on her from her previous post, Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department responds to Conservative MP Nick Hurd's suggestion that 'most charities don’t care about tax relief cap'.
Capping tax relief? Say what!?
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department offers her views on the government's proposals to impose a cap on tax relief for charitable contributions