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December 1997 issue of Prospect Magazine (#25)

Features

Can finance be regulated?
Bruce Page / December 20, 1997
Everyone agrees that financial regulation needs an overhaul. Some say that recent...
EMU: Here it comes, but will it work?
Charles Goodhart / December 20, 1997
A panel of supporters and sceptics agree that Emu will get off to a flying start. They...
Pietro Cavallini
Alasdair Palmer / December 20, 1997
Giotto's fresco cycle in Assisi started the Renaissance. But it now turns out that it was...
Library of sighs
Nicolas Barker / December 20, 1997
The belated opening of the new British Library is the culmination of a 50 year argument...
Democratic tyranny
Fareed Zakaria / December 20, 1997
The western political system is a fusion of constitutional liberalism, established over...
Prohibition wars
Hugh O'Shaughnessy / December 20, 1997
The war on drugs is aimed at the wrong culprits, based on the flimsiest information-and...
Fictional failure
Jason Cowley / December 20, 1997
British fiction is thriving, according to publishers. But having read countless novels as...
The place of genes
Steven Rose / December 20, 1997
The place of genes Dear Lewis, You and I have fenced over one of the central questions in...
Too few people?
Nicholas Eberstadt / December 20, 1997
After years of worrying about overpopulation, some demographers now predict that global...

Opinions

Beyond sticks and carrots
Evan Davis / December 20, 1997
Why are policy makers arguing about controversial and painful social security reforms...
Does she take therapy?
Marion McGilvary / December 20, 1997
A bout of despair cannot always be alleviated by drugs, psychotherapy is sometimes a...
Lock up your laptops
Warwick Collins / December 20, 1997
The takeover of the planet by man-made machines is one of the oldest themes of science...
Museveni in Neasden
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown / December 20, 1997
Twenty-five years after their arrival, the Ugandan Asians have become Britain's most...
Good-bye to Berlin
AC Grayling / December 20, 1997
Isaiah Berlin did not resolve the dilemmas of modern liberalism. But he saw them more...

Regulars

Ireland (north and south) after McAleese
John O'Farrell / December 20, 1997
The Irish Republic has just elected a northern Irish nationalist as president. But far...
In fact
prospect / December 20, 1997
In Japan, more households have electronic toilet seats than personal computers. In 1995,...

Arts & Books

Marquand's missing link
Robert Skidelsky / December 20, 1997
David Marquand attributes a succession of Britain's economic and social problems to its...
Global Claptrap
Robert Taylor / December 20, 1997
Two ill-informed books about globalisation have won acclaim by appealing to the...
Wrong leader, right result
Ian Gilmour / December 20, 1997
For most of the 20th century the Tory party has chosen the wrong leader, but has...
The original African
Adewale Maja-Pearce / December 20, 1997
Two years after political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by Nigeria's military...
Writers without rights
Charles Elton / December 20, 1997
The movie business's disdain for writers is an ancient part of the Hollywood story. But...

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