Animals ‘in the Fraternity of universal Nature’

The Romantics took great interest in science, the natural world and animals. In his utopian community the Pantisocracy (the all-governing society – where labour would be minimised and time devoted to study, liberal discussions and educating children) Samuel Taylor Coleridge said animals were to be brothers and sisters ‘in the Fraternity of universal Nature’. His poem ‘To a Young Ass’ hailed the animal he had befriended in Jesus College as ‘Brother’. Though mocked at the time for these views, animal rights and animal welfare were debated widely amongst the Romantics and remain controversial issues today, as Andrew Kelly reveals.

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Andrew Kelly 26 March 2015

Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design
In many parts of life – jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet – price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do the other processes that influence who gets which goods, jobs, university places and partners really work? In Who Gets What, Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth uncovers the global rules of how markets allocate, how matchmaking shapes lives, where markets exist that we may not even realise, and how everything about our biggest experiences – from getting accepted at university or living where we want – can be better understood and negotiated when one understands the design of those matching markets. The distribution of rewards is often unfair, but it’s seldom as random as it seems. Roth reveals just how much of our life takes place in marketplaces, and leads us to a new understanding of who gets what and why. He sheds new light on the politics of free markets and how many things that we choose in life also must choose us.

Alvin Roth 13 July 2015

13 July 2018 

Juliet Davenport is founder and CEO of Good Energy,
winner of the Sunday Times Best Green Company
award and The Observer’s Ethical Award for best
online retail initiative. Juliet previously worked for the
European Commission and the European Parliament.
She currently acts as an innovation adviser to the
University of Wales, Imperial College, the LSE and the
University of Bristol. She is also a board member of
the Natural Environment Research Council.

Dr Juliet Davenport receives honorary degree from the University of Bristol

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