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The financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about
morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the links between the
activities of bankers and the wellbeing of society as a whole. The
idea that economics is morally neutral or that finance should be
above ethical scrutiny deserves to be challenged. The Most Reverend
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Larry Elliott,
Economics Editor of the Guardian, bring together a group of
distinguished commentators to open up the ethical debate in the
search for a fairer vision of economic justice.
A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and
why, as a result, the Union will unravel Examining key economic
indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British
journalists assess why the euro has failed-and what will happen
when the European Union completely unravels. "This book is a
must-read for anyone who cares about the future of Europe and
progressive politics. Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson correctly
predicted the euro would prove a calamity. They are right today
that the euro crisis is far from over. Their demand for a radical
change of approach must be taken seriously-by policy makers and
politicians alike."-Ed Balls, UK Shadow Chancellor from 2011 to
2015 "[The book] offers useful insight into why so many people
thought the euro was a good idea in the first place."-Harvard
Business Review
The book is about Tinnitus which is a constant ringing in the ears.
The book represents my involvement with tinnitus since I first
acquired it and learned to live with it (first 20 pages). The rest
of the book is information I acquired through running a support
group, books, information from the internet and speakers. The book
contains about 150 pages
Illustrated with the eponymous oil painting by the magic realist,
Larry Elliott, this children's picture book offers young readers a
chance to explore the exciting details of a fine work of art while
developing their reading skills.
We live in an era in which the culture and values of big business
are dominant. The riptides of capital swirl around the globe
ruining entire economies overnight. Directors and chief executives
cash in stock options for unimaginable fortunes while whole
workforces are "downsized" as companies relocate at a whim.
Environmental degradation escalates as the earth's resources are
looted. The dream of worldwide prosperity and peace is given the
lie from Kosovo to the Congo, from the drug baronies of South
America to the criminal empires of the former Soviet Union. Welcome
to the Age of Insecurity. In the face of this slow-motion global
coup d'etat by untrammelled finance, traditionally left leaning
parties now in power have abandoned their concern with regulating
business for a compulsive and self-righteous moralism; the Blair
government stands as a perfect exemplar in this trend. In the
coruscating argument the authors make a plea for government to turn
strictures concerning ethics away from the citizen and on to a
financial system that is making our society ever more precarious.
Since the publication of the hardback of The Age of Insecurity in
May 1998 events have conspired to validate the author's argument.
In a new preface and afterword Elliott and Atkinson draw out the
lessons to be learned from the hedge-fund crisis, the
disintegration of the rouble and the spreading of economic turmoil
in Latin America. The Age of Insecurity is, more than ever, a vital
and radical tract for our times.
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