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Karen
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After hearing a lot about how the ideas ideas in this booked have sparked a lot of economic madness over the past 15 years I thought it was time to take a closer look. The opening chapter remarks that in France 1979 income per head overtakes Britain for the first time in 300 years which sets the book up for a particular blame game industrial strife type narrative.
— Nov 01, 2023 04:52AM
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Karen
is on page 57 of 151
“The bald fact is that the only successful approach to poor performance has turned out to be hard work”
— Nov 15, 2023 12:14AM
Karen
is on page 52 of 151
Section on lowering the bar and having high quality qualifications does not explain why Cuba has so many doctors
— Nov 15, 2023 12:13AM
Karen
is on page 52 of 151
“This lack of people with mid level qualifications in science and technology is a drag on the economy”
— Nov 15, 2023 12:10AM
Karen
is on page 42 of 151
Chapter the revenge of the geeks addresses problem of UK falling PISA scores. “In modern culture of instant gratification students go for easier option”
— Nov 15, 2023 12:08AM
Karen
is on page 21 of 151
Britain has not defaulted on its debt in modern times even coped with massive debts rising during war time therefore don’t understand “it turns out that a country’s budget is not so far away from a household budget”.
— Nov 02, 2023 05:10AM
Karen
is on page 2 of 151
Unpick statement that figure of 5.7 million people in receipt of a benefit demonstrates that Britain has descended into a dependency culture
— Nov 01, 2023 06:55AM
Karen
is on page 11 of 151
Ch2 cherry picking countries to suit narrative in the first it was France now we are on to Canada. By the way what happened to the B in BRIC? Something to be said about examining all the history and reaching the right conclusions about what is driving future behaviour
— Nov 01, 2023 05:24AM
Karen
is on page 11 of 151
Definitely setting up a certain narrative “the draining of effort from our National psyche has been replaced by a sense of entitlement “
— Nov 01, 2023 05:18AM
