Emerging markets: Will Brazil pay for its success?
South America’s economic star cannot live by commodities alone
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Patient, heal thyself
Googling your symptoms can be helpful. Doctors and patients should be more upfront about using online resources -
My literary allergy
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Editorial: The case for optimism
There couldn’t be a more exhilarating time to become editor of Prospect. Thanks to David Goodhart, now editor at large, for a warm and gracious handover—and for his report from Nick Clegg’s Sheffield seat, as Lib Dem ministers begin their “walk through fire” over tuition fees. I’ve been asked how... -
The way we were: Anarchy in the UK
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Prospect recommends: architecture
Nottingham Contemporary Designed by architects Caruso St John Tel: 0115 948 9750 On 2nd October, the Royal Institute of British Architects will award the Stirling prize to what it says is the best building of the year, but often isn’t. This year an outstanding contender, the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery... -
From TED to Edinburgh: the power of personalisation
I’ve written a science and technology piece for Prospect‘s September issue about attending the TED Global and SciFoo conferences. They’re very different events, but have what I felt were a few key factors in common: intellectual passion, interpersonal contact, interdisciplinary mingling, and—most intriguingly of all—an emphasis on quelling the social... -
Number cruncher: Labour’s poor predictions
How do you set fiscal policy? The aim is not to allow government debt to get too large relative to GDP. One obvious way is for the government to plan its expenditure over the next year or two (or beyond) and then set taxes so that projected revenues are close... -
Vasily Grossman
The Russian writer's novel "Life and Fate"—often compared with "War and Peace"—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But only now is interest taking off among a wider public
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