Tea with FT

As a former Executive Director of the World Bank I know that the columnists of the Financial Times have more voice than what I ever had, and therefore they might need some checks-and-balances.

Would a child shouting out “the Emperor is naked” have his observation published in FT? Would he now need a PhD for that to happen?

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Showing posts with label Schumpeter. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Schumpeter. Show all posts

January 22, 2015

Sir, is it not high time FT abandons its “Après nous le deluge" mode?

Sir, of the letters I wrote and which you published, before I was censored for the given reason that I wrote too many letters, that which g...

January 09, 2015

“Regression to the mean”, if allowed by politicians and regulators, will take care of the plutocrats, in due time.

Sir, Paul Marshall in “ Blame the rise of the plutocrats on politics not capitalism ”, January 9, holds that we need Schumpeter much more t...

December 13, 2011

Nothing ‘creative’ about destruction of lending to start-ups

Published in FT, December 14, 2011 Sir, Ed Crooks writes that start-up businesses are crucial for creating US jobs but their dwindling bi...

May 07, 2009

Do not undercut in any way the disciplinarian role of the market

Sir as an Executive Director at the World Bank 2002-2004 and as member of its Audit Committee I remember as one of my biggest frustrations c...

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