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Blind faith is destroying British industry

Posted on February 25, 2012, 10:42 am, by Gordon Pearson, under Corporate Governance, Economic Theory, Free Market Capitalism, Management Theory, Political Decision, Protectionaism, free trade ideology.

Peter Mandelson, writing in the New Statesman (‘Mind the gap’,20.2.2012), expresses the problem for the UK left in one plaintive sentence: “We still have to have faith in the basic model of an open and competitive market.” Well, no we don’t! Misplaced faith in such broad generalisations is what got us into this [...]

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Business as Usual and Stuff the Planet

Posted on November 22, 2010, 12:32 pm, by Gordon Pearson, under Bank Bonuses, Climate Change, Economic Theory, Protectionaism, Resource Depletion, Unemployment, free trade ideology.

The desire to return to business as usual isn’t restricted to the obscenity of bankers’ bonuses. That same desire is shared by unemployed potters in Stoke on Trent, car workers in Detroit, and the governing politicians in London and Washington who are presiding over their people’s misery.
However, for the millions in China’s (not to [...]

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