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...Other indices tell a similar story of weakening institutions and declining civil liberties....
...(FT) Keeping zombie companies alive is right call There is a case for sparing zombie companies a little longer, Kate Allen writes....
...The FT’s Due Diligence team explains how mutual back-scratching has brought together Mubadala chief Khaldoon Al Mubarak, who chairs City Football Group, and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban....
...The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson, Viking, RRP£25/Penguin, RRP$32 “Liberty originates from a delicate balance of power between state...
...“I have not heard anyone else saying, ‘yeah maybe we want to do that,” says Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V Group, an IPO adviser who was part of Google’s IPO team....
...Scripps: Allen & Co, JPMorgan and Weil Gotshal....
...Still not yet 40, his CV includes founding rightwing pressure group the TaxPayersAlliance, setting up civil liberties group Big Brother Watch and acting as campaign director in the successful fight against...
...Mop-tops mired in mutual contempt, antsy arguments, bad songs. Pop music, after one or two sleepy detours (see Dark Side of the Moon), never recovered. 4....
...Coercion – Let’s Get Serious With only a weak grasp on TTMs, the National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union are just two of the many groups using the coercion card in a campaign...
...Mr Allen, who now advises the Labour party, briefly chaired the troubled music group EMI....
...America, Empire of Liberty: A New History By David Reynolds Allen Lane, £30 When America looks in the mirror it sees “liberty”, never “empire”, says Reynolds....
...Ian Sayer was born in Norwich in October 1945, only a month after V-J Day, and raised in Feltham, west London....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran Published by Twelve/Hachette Book Group (US and UK) The book describes how Big Oil and the world’s carmarkers...
...What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist....
...Truth and authority are obviously incompatible with dialogue and liberty....
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