Brexit, labour rights and migration: what’s really at stake

Professor Simon Deakin, Director, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, in conversation with Boni Sones, OBE, Policy Associate at the CBR and Executive Producer, ParliamentaryRadio.com In a new podcast Simon Deakin, the Director of the Centre for Business Research … Continued

High household debt and extreme house prices threaten the UK economy and the Chancellor won’t balance his budget by 2019/20, says a new economic forecast from the Centre for Business Research – Winter 2015

A new forecast for the UK economy – Winter 2015 – has been launched by the CBR. The authors of the report are Dr Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts, of the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge; and Professor … Continued

Women in business and women in politics have much to learn from each other – including how to storm the smoking room and how to break down clubby cultures!

by Boni Sones OBE, Policy Associate at the CBR and Executive Producer, ParliamentaryRadio.com At the beginning of this year the www.parliamentaryradio.com team recorded interviews with 8 of the 10 Labour women who were leaving Westminster, giving them the opportunity to talk … Continued

Will the recent High Court Uber ruling eventually help Google launch driverless cars and what can history tell us about technological change and the law?

by Professor Simon Deakin, Centre for Business Research & Christopher Markou, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge In a major victory for the ride-sharing company Uber, the High Court has handed down a long-awaited ruling that Uber’s smartphone app does … Continued

As the Chinese economy slows we still have much to learn from this emerging market’s phenomenal economic transition and its increasing reliance on the rule of law

by Professor Simon Deakin & Dr Boya Wang, Centre for Business Research The slow-down in the growth of China’s economy from double digits to single figures is now the focus of world attention, but has the impact of the recent … Continued