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The Corporation in the 21st Century: Introduction
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruin...
A tale of (not very) ancient times
Once upon a time, there was a wise and kindly Emperor, with a faithful retainer called Sid. One day, the Emperor took him aside ‘...
Taxi apps should be hailed for breaking the cabby cartell
They are taking to the streets in Paris. They have secured a ban in Brussels. They have gone to court in Berlin. Taxi drivers...
Finance Competitiveness
The Queen's speech included proposals to introduce a bill to implement the Financial Reform Framework put forward by the Treasury in No...
Ergodicity
Radical Uncertainty begins with two signature examples of the misuse of probabilistic reasoning.- the decision by Obama to order the ra...
Book Review: Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
Teams of friends visit a shooting range. All the shots of team B are below and to the left of the bullseye. The shots of team C are sca...
Book Review: Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
Ever since 1969, people have asked themselves why if humans can land on the moon, they can’t they solve pressing problems here on Earth...
The Co-op’s mistake was to detach responsibility from power
Any trading organisation faces issues of equity and governance. Who bears the losses when things go wrong – as, from time to time...
Prospect Workplace Pensions
In 1991 the ebullient fraudster Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht in the Canaries and was found to have looted the Daily Mirror...
Ethics in Finance and Business
Last week, Sears, America’s leading retailer through most of the 20th century, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the ...
Boon or Bubble?
Boon or Bubble?
Is Bitcoin a bubble, a scam, a Ponzi scheme? Or a transformational innovation which will change forever the function...