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...“She said that knitting could be done on autopilot,” says RSN chief executive Susan Kay-Williams of her predecessor....
...Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, by Lucas Chancel, Belknap Press, RRP$29.95/RRP£23.95, 184 pages The author, co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of...
...begins with a soundcheck and the characters introducing themselves: thoughtful, enigmatic singer Aisha (Preeya Kalidas), named after a grandmother born in the Himalayas; insecure guitarist Opal (Anoushka Lucas...
...Richard Lucas London, England I’m 77 now and was diagnosed with vascular dementia a couple of years ago. I came over to England from Ireland when I was 14....
...Professor of global public health, University of Strathclyde Rt Hon Lord Campbell of Pittenweem Dr Chad Damro University of Edinburgh Prof Emeritus Sir Tom Devine University of Edinburgh Christine De Luca...
...Meanwhile, over at FT Money, a raft of experts — from John Kay to Paul Lewis — offer their 2016 financial advice, from giving up that daily coffee and cake to recalibrating your drawdown expectations....
...Robert Lucas, doyen of modern macroeconomic theory, decried critics for their ignorance, and explained that the economic consequences of unpredicted events were unpredictable....
...Now they are out of power,” says Francis De Luca, of the Civitas Institute, a conservative think-tank....
...If Okonkwo found herself stared in the eye by a Terminator in a twin set, though, she might start to agree with Luca Solca, head of luxury goods research at Exane BNP Paribas....
...Additional reporting by Louise Lucas...
...I empathise with Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos, but I do not envy them. In politics, as in other professions, the people best at it have learned the trade....
...And there is a beautiful moment on the second day, when an author who requires little introduction in Edinburgh stands up to say, “I’m Jackie Kay from Scotland, and I am a lesbian.”...
...I think Prof Lucas means that attempts to construct general models of exceptions to the efficient market hypothesis have enjoyed little success....
...Yet as Prof Sargent disarmingly observed, “such empirical tests were rejecting too many good models” in the programme he had established with fellow Nobel laureates Bob Lucas and Ed Prescott....
...What he actually said was that economists Bob Lucas and Ed Prescott felt a particular type of test rejected too many good models; indeed, Prof Sargent approved of later, more sensitive tests....
...“We just gave up a pretty sizeable amount of money,” said Mary Kay Thatcher, senior director for congressional relations at the American Farm Bureau, a lobbying group for the sector....
...In a celebrity-obsessed world, footballers (and their wives), talk show hosts (and their mums: step forward Vernon Kay’s mother, Gladys) and countless pop stars, actors, models and reality stars have been...
...Giordano’s baroque figures against Ottoman tiles and Turkish references in an east London milieu; Edward Kay’s accomplished pastiche of George Grosz, “The Bon Viveur”....
...More columns at www.ft.com/kay johnkay@johnkay.com...
...louise.lucas@ft.com Narrow banking John Kay wants to cut the banking industry down to size....
...House prices: louise.lucas@ft.com andrew.hill@ft.com To comment, visit www.ft.com/lombard...
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