Since there are many issues in public debate, attention to any one is necessarily transient. The attention of vested interests to their own concerns, however, is permanent.
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Taming the banks: long overdue or utter folly?
13 September 2011, Financial Times
The jobs and growth the bankers claim will be in jeopardy are their own: the pressing needs of the real economy point not to delaying change, but to implementing it as speedily as possible.
Publishers badly need a new Sir Thomas Bodley
25 May 2011, Financial Times
As the commercial market is being transformed, anyone who thinks that the policy challenge is to restrict internet piracy has missed the point.
Turning back the clock to ‘Hovis banking’
09 March 2011, Financial Times
The suggestion that we might partially turn back the clock has been described as a call for “Hovis banking”, referring to an advertisement that plays on nostalgia. The commercial succeeds because we believe the bread our grandparents ate, before innovations in technology and marketing, was nicer and more wholesome. Perhaps that is true in banking as in baking.
Don’t blame luck when your models misfire
03 March 2011, Financial Times
We will succeed in managing financial risk better only when we come to recognise the limitations of formal modelling. Control of risk is almost entirely a matter of management competence, well-crafted incentives, robust structures and systems, and simplicity and transparency of design.
Drugs companies have lost far more than their health
09 February 2011, Financial Times
When an industry model is broken, the best business strategy may be to manage its decline.
Forty years of taxiing on UK runways
05 January 2011, Financial Times
Britain is a small island, dependent on frequent and reliable air travel. From the distribution of its population, its biggest airport would ideally be north-west of London.
Middle England should spare a thought for Modigliani-Miller
15 December 2010, Financial Times
The value of Modigliani-Miller – like any good model in physics or economics – lies as much in the questions it raises as in the truths it reveals.
Bonds designed to leave savers bemused
17 November 2010, Financial Times
The theory that the right answer to the gap in information and knowledge between the investment bank’s structured products division and the person in the street is to give the person in the street more information is absurd.
Why you can have an economy of people who don’t sweat
25 October 2010, Financial Times
The books that Britain exports have long been made from trees grown abroad. Then globalisation meant the paper was also made abroad, and increasingly the printing took place overseas. Soon selling a book will involve no physical objects. The division of labour becomes ever finer and generally increases the wealth of all involved in the production process.
11 September 2003, Financial Times
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