Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Why competition is the key issue

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The Office of Fair Trading has nodded through the takeover by Amazon of the Book Depository, the only UK competitor capable of taking them o...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012

The future of the high street - its another squeezed middle

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Yes, the high street is in trouble.  But something else is going on there which is important for the future - a new division between would-b...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Why we need new kinds of money

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“On the morning after the Depression a man came to work building a house, and the foreman said to him "Sorry chum you can't work to...
Thursday, 22 December 2011

The perigrination in the catacombs

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John Maynard Keynes talked about life without the means of exchange as "a perigrination in the catacombs with a guttering candle"....
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The extra costs of the big IT systems

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My book The Human Element came out last month and it has been fascinating how people have responded – I got a Facebook message last week fr...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The perils of payment by results

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Payment by results, much beloved of the coalition - good idea in principle.  The trouble is that Whitehall has not really grasped what went ...
Monday, 19 December 2011

Why Clegg was right to choose Popper

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Imagine yourself in the coffee houses of 18th century Edinburgh, in the elegance of the New Town when it really was new, the civilization of...