Businesses have the power to fix their own board diversity problems without quotas KWASI KWARTENG The business case for creating diverse leadership teams based on people’s experience, hard-work and achievements, rather than their background or gender, is obvious. You would find it hard to track down any credible academic, researcher or business expert across the world who disputes this. Put simply, businesses are more innovative, prosperous and profitable, when they [...]
Brexit has humiliated Britain’s failed economic soothsayers The Trojan prophetess, Cassandra, was given powers of foresight by Apollo, the Greek god of culture, in a bid to seduce her. She refused him and, as one version of the legend goes, he spat into her mouth to inflict a curse that no one would ever believe what she said. She prophesied doom and [...]
Bretton Woods: How stable monetary order was created and then destroyed NEXT month, financial history enthusiasts will commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Agreement. In the 1940s, Bretton Woods was a somewhat faded New Hampshire resort town, but it is now forever associated with the three-week conference held there between 1 and 22 July 1944. The conference’s purpose was to set out a new [...]
