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Nick Lane will explore the importance of energy flow in shaping life from its very origins to the flamboyant complexity around us, and ask whether energy flow would direct evolution down a similar path on other planets.
Housing represents the main asset class held by UK households and we shall try to understand why it is held as such a large share of assets. We shall then outline whether this choice has other knock on effects in the economy such as labour and social mobility.
With a global market approaching £70 billion, there’s a lot at stake. Including some ‘blind taste tests’, the environmental science evidence behind organic farming will be reviewed, exploring facts and debunking a few myths.
We will carefully outline the categories of savings held by households and link that to the operation of financial intermediaries in providing loanable funds.
Productivity growth in the UK economy has lagged behind that of our major trading partners. We will examine a number of possible explanations ranging from the role of finance to the employment of physical and human capital.
Using DNA and gene-based therapy to treat human diseases may sound like science-fiction, but there are already several gene therapies in use today. This lecture will describe what gene therapy is all about, the recent advancements in the field and what the future holds for gene therapies.