• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Exeposé Online

Making the headlines since 1987

Exeposé Online
  • Editorial
      • Newsletter
      • Puzzles and Games
      • What’s On
      • Print Exeposé
  • Freshers
  • News
  • Comment
  • Features
  • Exhibit
      • Arts + Lit
      • Lifestyle
      • Music
      • Screen
      • Tech
  • Science
  • Sport
  • The Exepat
      • International
      • Multilingual
      • Amplify
  • Satire
  • About
      • Editorial Team
      • Write For Us
      • Get In Touch
      • Advertise

Economics

Spotlight: The Freedom Dividend – Yang’s $1,000 Pledge

by Bryan Knight

In this Spotlight series, The Features editorial team have dug deep to keep you informed on outsider stories that were missed in mainstream news. With the 2020 elections looming, the news cycle is inundated with headlines meticulously analysing the big players such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. However, if you blinked during the previous two […]

Big Money and The Arts

by Zach Mayford

The Booker Prize Foundation has lost a £1.6 million sponsorship deal with London-based hedge fund managers, The Man Group. Despite the Foundation’s grace under pressure, this is a huge deal in the literary world. In a statement, Thomas Keneally, winner of the prize in 1982, called the chaos a ‘climactic change in over the book […]

Macron’s Start-up Nation: The cloud hanging over France

by John Finlay

With Britain tormented by its decision to leave the European Union, France waits, anticipating Brexit’s fall-out whilst also fantasising over a society full of unicorns. Emmanuel Macron’s pledge in June 2017 to make France a ‘start-up nation’ follows the growing trend of startup creation around Europe, and the appetite to produce startup companies valued at […]

Emmanuel Macron: A Centrist Myth?

by Hugh Dollery

Last April, France elected their youngest leader since Napoleon, Emmanuel Macron. A year on, the President of the Republic’s popularity is waning as his approval ratings continue to fall. Some critics say Macron’s centrist platform is a fallacy and correlate his actions, perceived to be far from centrist, to be the reason why. However, the […]

Wink wink, nudge nudge- Nudge theory explained

by Theo Cox Dodgson

How would you like the government telling you what you can and cannot eat? Generally speaking, we tend to be uncomfortable with governments acting as our parents, telling us what to do or trying to use the coercive arm of the state to influence our behaviour. However Richard Thaler, of recent Nobel Prize fame, argues that […]

Blinded by numbers: why economists were wrong

by Dominic Walmsley

With the arrival of the noughties, average growth rate in emerging markets hit over 7 per cent for the first time in human history. Naturally, forecasters raced to exaggerate the implications. China was declared the next economic superpower, surpassing the US by 2050. India and Vietnam were lauded as being the centres of economic future, […]

Be an MP and live longer, says Uni research

by Fiona Potigny

Long hours and high pressure decisions don’t seem to have done MPs too much bad – in fact, they’re living 28 per cent longer than their constituents, according to new research involving a University of Exeter PhD student. Conducted by John Dennis from the University Medical School and Dr Tim Crayford, chief medical advisor to […]

Second thoughts: The good life

by Features

Emma Dunne – The Social Media Situation It is fair to say that everyone wants ‘The Good Life’, but many of us cannot define what it is. Is it fulfilment, happiness, or a sense of purpose? And how do we achieve it? Nowadays, much of our lives are lived online. With Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and […]

Nobel Prizes 2015: Who are Angus Deaton and the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet?

by Sophie Beckett

Each year, the announcement of the Nobel Prize winners brings the remarkable achievements of a few individuals to the attention of the wider world. This year, the recipients of the prizes for Peace and Economic Sciences have made important contributions to our understanding of democracy, poverty and inequality, yet their work has remained relatively low […]

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Has the appeal of Dry January dried up?
  • UCU announces dates for 18 days of strike action
  • An interview with Professor Tim Lenton
  • Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Album review: Gabrielle Aplin – Phosphorescent
  • NHS recruiting doctors from WHO “red list” countries
  • “Shocking and distasteful”: students raise greenwashing concerns about University’s partnership with Shell
  • Album review: Loyle Carner – Hugo

Footer

  • facebook-alt
  • twitter
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • mail