If you want to understand how the City came to play such a central role in British economic and political life, why a crash was inevitable, and why the crisis is being resolved on terms which give so much and ask so little of the financial sector, this is the most important thing you need to understand: the influence of investment banks on modern politics and policy.
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True democracy is not just about taking part
29 July 2009, Financial Times
Our leaders blog, twitter and consult focus groups. But these developments do not make society better governed.
Beware bail-out kings and backbench barons
20 May 2009, Financial Times
Power is a duty, not a prize, is probably the most important reason why some countries in the world are rich and others poor. The point needs to be brought home in equal measure to legislators, chief executives and bankers.
Expenses have caught MPs with their pants down
13 May 2009, Financial Times
Values of integrity, of public service, and of responsible stewardship of the money of others can never be replaced by rules or imposed by regulation.
Greenspan could have found cure at pharmacy
25 February 2009, Financial Times
We trust the pharmacist not because we bank on his or her self-interest, but because we are confident that it will be tightly restrained. In part, we rely on the long-run self-interest of the pharmacist in protecting his or her own reputation.
Introduce professional standards for bankers
18 February 2009, Financial Times
It is true that professional reputations are not what they once were, that self-regulation of standards of competence has often been inadequate, that professions’ ethical standards have declined generally. But it is also striking that such decline is most noticeable in the areas of law and accountancy closest to financial services.
Weasel words have teeth to kill great ventures
14 January 2009, Financial Times
Dishonesty of speech quickly leads to dishonesty in behaviour because the language we use governs all we do.
Some companies are too powerful to fail
10 December 2008, Financial Times
Few things corrode business efficiency and effective markets more insidiously than the discovery that it is more profitable to win the favour of politicians than to win the approval of customers.
Banks got burned by their own ‘innocent fraud’
15 October 2008, Financial Times
There are only a few basic kinds of deception and self-deception in finance. John illustrates some of the key mechanisms.
Rhetoric will never feed the world’s hungry
11 June 2008, Financial Times
We make the poor better off not by holding back technical and economic progress, but by accelerating it.
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