Listener: 22 December, 1984.
Keywords: Literature and Culture;
It is strange to recall the public outcry caused by the arrival of abstraction in painting. We now accept that form and colour are relevant and important. Abstract painting is now safe, for while it challenges us intellectually there is – as with landscapes – a distance between the picture and our human preoccupations. Where then does the painter af social realism, the commentator an our lives, fit in? Not in the boardroom or the living-room; paintings which glare at us, challenging the way we live, do. not belong in those places – do. they?
Listener: 18 August, 1984.
Keywords: Governance; Growth & Innovation;
Sir Robert said he had learned after his many years in dealing with Treasury to beware of calls for quick change, because official reports rarely paid sufficient heed to the social consequences of economic change. ” (Evening Post July 18, 1984)
Listener: 4 August, 1984
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
Devaluation is one of those topics, like sexual relations, about which it is extremely difficult to have a sensible discussion in public and which, as a result, is surrounded by mystery and mysticism.
Listener: 21 July, 1984.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
The publication of the June 1984 quarter Consumer Price Index increase will revive the issue of whether the freeze was successful. While the issue will not be settled in any scientific manner for several years, the research economist needs to provide some framework for the present public debate.
Listener: 18 February, 1984
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;
The current debate about controls and the market is not merely a question of ideology. Underlying it are analytic propositions about how markets work. Consider an uncontrolled market which settles on a price of $1 a unit at which suppliers sell 1000 units weekly and buyers purchase 1000 units. [...]
