Essays on Politics and Political Philosophy

1. Governments do a lot of things, such as collecting taxes and drafting people into the military, which we would object to individuals doing. Can this be justified?
2. Why should anybody bother to vote?

Essays on Economics

1. What exactly is economic growth and why do some parts of the world grow more rapidly than others?
2. Given the concentration of high-value economic sectors in big cities, is a promise to significantly reduce regional inequalities by ‘levelling up’ possible to fulfil?
3. Climate change is widely considered to be the greatest threat facing the human race in the modern era. However, the economic costs of tackling it are significant, with lost growth contributing to greater poverty and potentially human mortality, particularly in the developing world. With these costs in mind, discuss whether it is worth taking drastic global action to stop climate change.