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...“The next step on finance is to start being clear on what we mean,” said Adair Turner, senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking....
...Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, says there is a self-reinforcing cycle, between technology, companies and governments, with each feeding into each other....
...The Globalization of Inequality, by François Bourguignon, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/RRP$27.95 Bourguignon’s focus is global, not local, and is more on what...
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...Even now, nearly a hundred years after Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald first stepped off a boat in Europe, there are young Americans who dream of following in the footsteps of the Lost Generation, living in Paris...
...At Kurt Geiger, Scott Tepper, formerly a buyer at Bergdorf Goodman, was hired last summer to be the footwear group’s head of luxury....
...Yet the contrast with the comments of Adair Turner, FSA chairman, in this week’s Prospect magazine could hardly have been sharper....
...“We vigorously oppose a tax on the industry,” said Scott Talbott, head of government affairs at the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents the top 97 US institutions....
...Raoul Ruiz’s likeably dotty thriller A Closed Book () is adapted from a novel by Gilbert Adair....
...Even sane people like Adair Turner said that we should cut back on finance on the grounds that most people buying it don’t get good value for money....
...Gilbert Adair, 63, was born in Edinburgh, is a writer and journalist. His 1988 novel The Holy Innocents won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award....
...The Carbon Trust, a government-funded body that promotes carbon reductions for business, is launching a £75m Aim-listed fund to be chaired by former CBI chief Adair Turner....
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