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Economics / business school, economic theory, finance, Milton Friedman, shareholder value, shareholders /

Shareholders and Public Trust?

November 17, 2015

I remember sitting at business school what seems a lifetime ago and absorbing with enthusiasm the latest financial trickery. It seemed so much more rigorous than all the other stuff. I felt as if I was being taught something incisive, something with intellectual heft, something that was not subject to the whim of subjective belief, […]

Commentary, Politics / capitalism, democracy, plutocracy /

History Matters

November 13, 2015

Yes it does. I was just talking to a friend about an old British TV documentary about the making of modern Britain. Basically it’s a history of British society from about 1900 through to 1945. As a program it’s pretty good. But that’s not its relevance to us. What it reminds us is that our […]

Commentary, Politics, Uncategorized / Republicans /

Disbelief as Belief

November 13, 2015

Are we at a point of true reflection on the right in politics? Here in the US we have the extraordinary spectacle of a bevy of outsiders of various political stripes leading in the polls not long before the election process gets into its more concrete moments. Decisions are looming very closely. A few months back […]

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