The Government Debt Iceberg

The Government Debt IcebergNobody who has even a passing acquaintance with economics could fail to realise that Western governments are highly indebted. Current generations have been consuming at the expense of future generations. However, just how indebted are we? The government measures how much it has borrowed to meet past spending commitments, but it does not measure how much money it needs to meet all the future pensions and healthcare promises it has made to tomorrow s

Neil Hewison here outlines the history (and prehistory) of the Fayoum and its lakes

This book investigates the role of ‘texts’ – including books

through distribution systems and onto fields

This chapter describes the principles of heterosis in barley and its potential for yield enhancement

or even daily life in late medieval Europe

from where it has spread to other banana-growing areas via infected planting material

It argues that the ‘comradely objects’ of Russian productivism were not just shabby copies of western commodities – they were agents of progressive social relations with a discernible inheritance from the 1920s avant-garde

the very concept of "faithful historical re-creation" takes on a much broader and more complex character

livestock and manure models

the shattered sarcophagus of Ramesses VI was reassembled in his tomb

documents and accounting books

Analysing the lollard legacy in the post-Reformation era