In the Autumn 2003 edition of CentrePiece:

In this edition:

Poverty and worklessness

Stephen Nickell provides a profile of poverty in Britain today and argues that it is high by European standards because of our exceptionally long tail of very low skilled adults. Read more...

Crime and property prices

Steve Gibbons uses Metropolitan Police figures for reported crime to show that vandalism and graffiti have a significant impact on house values, but burglary and violent crime levels in an area do not. Read more...

Lessons from the seven years war

A banking collapse in Amsterdam rocked European financial markets in 1763. Isabel Schnabel and Hyun Song Shin draw parallels between that crisis and the events that brought down Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, conc... Read more...

Science fiction or the wave of the future?

Nanotechnology is seen by some as a dehumanising threat and by others as promising almost limitless benefits. Stephen Wood, Richard Jones and Alison Geldart argue that we need urgently to get to grips with its real impli... Read more...