As Martin Wolf reminds us in this morning’s FT, the economic cycle has a behavioural underpinning: stability creates instability (it fosters behaviour such as complacency amongst regulators and greater risk taking in business). Politicians in Government are subject to a similar tragic irony: success becomes irrelevant. The electoral salience of an issue reflects the degree […]
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