I knew it was coming, but when it did, the renaming of a London School of Economics (LSE) building after Sir Arthur Lewis still hit me like a blue tidal wave, or a virtual tsunami.
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One in five people on the planet live in countries at risk of debt distress. Yet the leaders and institutions that understand the challenge and could address it are instead virtue signaling and pointing the finger at others who share responsibly for a solution. We need a different approach one that offers vulnerable countries the same luxuries afforded to rich countries.
you did politics, philosophy and economics. one of your tutors said you were quite quiet back then. tim besley, economics tutor at oxford, he said, quiet, low key, interested in economics, but quite low key? i m not sure i was that quiet, but there were quite a lot of noisy people around. your tutorial parlour. yes, for example, there was one ed balls, so getting a word in edgeways in that group was a little challenging. that was a very different kind of world to the one that i had been used to. rumour has it you were a bit more left wing than him as a student? that would be true, i think. lots of students who are interested in politics, then one took a particular view of politics and i was more involved in labour politics then than ed would have been at the time. the left caucus. within college, there are some slightly strange students who got together who had left wing views at that stage in life, but rather like you, i have left my