Waiting for Wolfowitz…
The World Bank President blog is back on the job, with all manner of insider dope on the crisis at the World Bank.
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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were high [...] read our review »
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Cyert and Marsh wrote a paper on agency theory in firms which states that managers manage up to the point and then bring in hidden costs to reward themselves.
During the Asian financial crisis one constituent part of the World Bank could not talk to another because one used Word Perfect and the other Microsoft Word.
Any undergraduate who came up with that excuse would be laughed out of the place but because it is Ph Ds acting the idiot it is perfectly acceptable behaviour.
Get “The Chastening” out od the Library if you want to learn more about this august institution