Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard and all-round economic guru, has suggested that undergraduate education needs radically reformed to reflect changes in society. Click here to read the things he wants to see change and why. His recommendations centre on what students learn as well as how they learn. Notably, he highlights three thing that we encourage at Queen's University Management School - collaboration in the classroom, active learning, and an ability to handle big data.
According to Robert Shiller , speaking at Davos, Bitcoin is a perfect example of a bubble - story here . Shiller sees Bitcoin as a backwards step in the evolution of money. George Selgin , a free banker, takes an opposing view - click here . Although he doesn't believe that Bitcoin is money, he sees its development as a fascinating turn in the evolution of money. In particular, he lauds the fact that Bitcoin production is constrained and cannot be infinite. There is a short video below where Bitcoin explain how it works.