Regime change at BP

It has been announced that Barack Obama is to meet the chairman of BP. Given the different roles that the chairman and chief executive of an organisation have, it is interesting that the US President wants to meet the former rather than the latter. The...

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An infinite number of economists

There is a well-known theory that if you give an infinite number of monkeys a typewriter each, then eventually one of them will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Would they also produce the complete works of John Maynard Keynes (or Adam...

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Privatising Royal Mail

The UK's new Government has put forward plans to privatise parts of Royal Mail, and has suggested that there will be opportunities for employee ownership. This could be a sensible move to help make any privatisation a success - but only if it is done...

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