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...A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty, translated by Steven Rendall, Belknap (Harvard) £22.95, 288 pages Diane Coyle is professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge Join our online...
...Thomas Pugh: Significant reform of the planning system....
...Diane Coyle: The UK is in a structural hole, not a cyclical downturn....
...They include Nick Thomas-Symonds, shadow home secretary, Lisa Nandy, shadow foreign secretary, and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth....
...Diane Coyle: Most people will feel worse off in a year’s time....
...(This is a nice summary of the problems Coyle raises, many of which relate to innovation.)...
...Damien Coyle, professor of neurotechnology at Ulster University in the UK, says: “What they are doing is quite impressive....
...Ms Coyle fears, however, that Labour’s obsession with ownership conceals something more regressive....
...that human effort can be simply substituted by machines — like the famous “Mechanical Turk” machine that could supposedly play chess but in reality contained a hidden chess master, or the dumbwaiters in Thomas...
...For Coyle, there’s an urgency to finding an alternative way to gauge an economy's health....
...“There are lots of sensible measures that will help on the supply side and productivity potential,” said Diane Coyle, professor of economics at the University of Manchester....
...One economist who would not have been surprised to see millions of turkeys flocking to vote for Christmas is the late Thomas Schelling, whose recent death deprived economics of one of its most profound thinkers...
...These include: Diane Coyle of the University of Manchester, Mary O’Mahony (King’s College, London) and Nicholas Oulton (UCL)....
...Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) was one, of course, followed this year by Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth ....
...“As long as that difference between the loan yield and the CLO financing remains attractive, the attractiveness of CLOs isn’t affected,” says Roger Coyle, partner at Fair Oaks, a credit manager that invests...
...In macroeconomics, this has indisputably been the year of Thomas Piketty....
Knowledge gained over a long career can bring wisdom
...Two of 2014’s most controversial books – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys – will go head to head in an attempt to become the Financial Times’s 10th business...
...Also in the Fresh strand is Thomas Watson, who studied at Manchester School of Art....
...The servants’ hall’s one really bad apple, the first footman Thomas (Rob James-Collier), is nevertheless a clear-eyed harbinger of a new time, berating his fellows for their dependence on the lives of the...
...Geraint Thomas, Olympic cyclist. Sophi Tranchell, managing director, Divine Chocolate....
...Thomas Keneally, 71, shot to fame with his 1982 Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler’s Ark, later adapted by Steven Spielberg as Schindler’s List....
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