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?

For more see "A Blog is Born" at the very bottom.

Showing posts with label rent seeking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rent seeking. Show all posts
June 09, 2014

Do not let the very natural splendors of richness distract from the very unnatural causes of unequal richness.

›
Sir I refer to Lawrence Summers’ “ The rich have advantages that money cannot buy ” May 9.  In it Summers writes “In areas ranging from...
April 26, 2014

Is Thomas Piketty, with his “Capital” unwittingly working for the big time Oligarchs and Plutocrats?

›
Sir, I refer to Gillian Tett’s “ The lessons from a rock-star economist ”, April 26. Anyone wanting to tax more wealth and income, in o...
September 30, 2013

If the ordinary citizen, not just “civil society”, is not part of the climate change challenge, we are all toast.

›
Sir, my first reaction when I read Nicholas Stern’s “ World leaders must act faster on climate change ” September 30, was “How could they? ...
April 19, 2011

Stealing and rent seeking has nothing to do with “social contracts”

›
Sir, your reporters, on the issue of fuel subsidies, April 19, wrote: “For oil producers such as Venezuela… fuel subsidies are part of the s...
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.