Adair Turner

Lord Adair Turner was appointed UK Financial Services Authority Chairman in September 2008.

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Is Modern Finance a Productive Economic Activity?

By , August 3, 2012 in Reforming Global Finance

Financial systems play an important role in economic growth. Why, then, do they sometimes go off the rails?

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Don’t Leave It to the Economists

By , August 2, 2012 in Reforming Global Finance

Why do economists — and the policymakers who heed their advice — need to reconsider the conventional wisdoms of their profession?

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The Need to Challenge Conventional Economic Wisdom: Part III

By , August 3, 2011 in Globalist Paper

What is the best measure of economic success — the growth of GDP or well-being and happiness?

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The Need to Challenge Conventional Economic Wisdom: Part II

By , August 2, 2011 in Globalist Paper

What does the economics profession really know about generating economic growth?

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The Need to Challenge Conventional Economic Wisdom: Part I

By , August 1, 2011 in Globalist Paper

How has the global financial crisis forced policymakers to reconsider the established economic conventional wisdom?

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