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...Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Public Affairs) Economists Acemoglu and Johnson make the case that decisions about technology...
...They dined in an alcove off the dining room, which was dominated by a massive John Singer Sargent portrait of the 6th Marquis of Londonderry....
...But Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association’s ruling council, suggested Boris Johnson, the prime minister, had ignored “the elephant in the room” of staff absence levels....
...Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 2019 general election manifesto included a pledge of 50,000 more nurses in the English workforce by the end of the parliament, in 2024....
...Is the B Corp movement remaking capitalism, as Marquis contends?...
...the microscope as the money rolls in (CNBC) The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals (NYTimes) Climate change is wreaking havoc on the power grid in ways you never knew (LATimes) Christopher Marquis...
...After that rotten start came the Johnson Matthey affair, which brought relations between the BoE and Treasury to a low....
...So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends – and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition....
...Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade are also touchstones. Yet ultimately the book’s most significant forebear may be Moby-Dick, that symphonic masterpiece about the gaping mouth of evil....
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