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  1. Prospect’s 10 most influential articles

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    This blog accompanies David Goodhart’s review of Prospect’s first 15 years—click here to read that piece Influence and public noise is not everything, but every political publication wants to feel that it is shaping the argument. These are the ten pieces that have done so most powerfully for Prospect: 1....
  2. Sarkozy turns to Turner and Tobin

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    It appears that Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a leaf out of Prospect‘s book. Following last month’s interview with FSA chief Adair Turner, in which he described the City as “socially useless” and called for the introduction of a Tobin tax, there are now reports that Nicolas Sarkozy will urge fellow...
  3. Don’t cry for me, Wall Street

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    The outcry at proposals recently floated by FSA chief Lord Turner in Prospect suggests that the City knows they would be effective. The City does not fear “regulation”; regulations can always be circumvented. But a Tobin tax, an infinitesimal levy on all financial transactions, would squash the profitability of much...
  4. Adair Turner: a useful public intellectual

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    Adair Turner has done public debate (and Prospect magazine) a big favour by spelling out carefully and coherently what many people have long felt intuitively about the British financial system. He may not be correct in everything he said (although he has been most commonly attacked for something he didn’t...


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