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Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Michael Mainelli, Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce with Paul...
Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? In the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with...
Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...
Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion We would all like a riskless life, right? The Precautionary...
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years...