A new report from Tipping Points on the role of trust in financial markets is now available. It includes video interviews with two researchers in financial law from the project, Prof Roman Tomasic and Dr Folarin Akinbami, about how we can learn from the banking crisis and what both financial institutions and regulators can do… [Read more…]
In the first of a series of videos from IHRR’s Tipping Points project, scientists travel to Greenland to collect artifacts (insects and pollen grains) that will help them uncover the mystery of a rapid cooling event that took place in the North Atlantic around 5000 years ago.
January 19, 2012
by brettcherry
An interesting yet also perhaps provocative interview with Malcolm Gladwell on the CBC. Gladwell talks about a range of high-profile topics from the Occupy movement to the current debt crisis and the riots in London. About the Occupy street protests in New York and other parts of the US, Gladwell says ‘…without a real leader… [Read more…]
IHRR’s Tipping Points project was featured on Radio 4′s thought-provoking programme ‘Thinking Allowed’. The programme features researchers from the project Prof Alex Bentley, Prof Patricia Waugh and Prof Tim Clark. You can listen to the programme via iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0184s2x/Thinking_Allowed_Tipping_points/
This post is from Prof Ranald Michie, a lead researcher on IHRR’s Tipping Points project in Work Package 2: ‘Financial Crisis in the Banking Sector: Past and Present’ In 2000, Malcolm Gladwell published a book that caught the public imagination with the concept of Tipping Points: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a… [Read more…]
Deputy Director of the Tipping Points project, Dr Alex Bentley, is the lead author of a new book published by MIT Press. This is a truly exciting work that looks at how ideas and activities spread through social copying. Summary provided by MIT Press: Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to… [Read more…]
March 15, 2012
by IHRR
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