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Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children

Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli · Gresham College

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About

There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending amoral, or perhaps even immoral, economics. Regressive taxes, the BBC licence fee, pollution, the Common Agricultural Policy, postcode lotteries and pensions appropriations are all examples where wealth or risk are transferred among segments of the population, or among generations, with social and ethical consequences. What lessons, if any, can help us to understand what we're doing, and do it better?

The talk

  1. Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children 2007-11-12 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
Year
2007
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Philosophy
Source
Gresham College
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