Over the last 50 years, medical student debt has become a problem of national importance, and obtaining medical education in the United States has become a loan-dependent, individual investment. Although this phenomenon must be understood in the general context of U.S. higher education as well as economic and social trends in late-20th-century America, the historical problem of medical student ...

Household Finances and the ‘Big Five’ Personality Traits We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decisionmaking at the individual level focusing on decisions regarding unsecured d...

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, all day long. Those of you who have children know this song. It's great. At least, it is for the first 10 times of listening. In the same way, some have welcomed reorganisations of the National Health Service (NHS) as the way forward – but again, and again, and again, year in, year out? My first experience of primary ca...

For some time now, I have been hearing of a mythical place where quite impossible things seem to happen. It is a country the size of a continent, but with a small and very open economy that allows its currency to fluctuate to the tune of its quite erratic terms of trade. It can do so without kindling fears of inflation or wreaking havoc on bond prices. It is a country where short-term interest ...

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