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Social Contract
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Levy on City trading aimed at restoring trust in banks• Survey shows more than 50% of voters back planGordon Brown will take his radical proposal to tax City trading to Britain's business leaders today, as a survey shows th (Read More)
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Thanks to Jonas, Bojana, Rikard, Karl, Henrik, Mathias Friman, and all the others behind the scenes – who all combined for a pretty fiery Free Society Conference for 2009. You can see the Live website for the conference here, (Read More)
FT.com - Clive Crook:
The great virtue of this book – a comprehensive policy manual and the outline of a new social contract – is not just in recognising that upward mobility is less than it should be, but is in calling for action, and in insistin (Read More)
The Guardian:
Prime Minister hopes to win backing of other nations to force IMF to consider so-called international 'Tobin tax' on all financial transactionsTwo top Treasury officials have been sent to Washington under orders from Gordon B (Read More)
New York Times:
If last year's sale of Anheuser-Busch -- and Budweiser! -- to a European brewer was a hint that a social contract had been broken, the evidence has only been piling up since then.
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Unions back Brown plan that could raise £30bn a year• PM undeterred by bank chiefs' and US oppositionThe TUC is today throwing its weight behind Gordon Brown's plans for a levy on financial institutions, proposing a tax on (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gordon Brown's G20 speech was bold – but we need to go further and separate risky banking activities from retailThe backlash against the banking sector continues, but Gordon Brown's speech to the G20 provided some hope that (Read More)
Nov 09, 2009
www.guardian.co.uk:
A global tax on banking transactions would curb speculation and the proceeds could break the deadlock on Copenhagen climate talksThe response was predictable. No sooner had Gordon Brown expressed enthusiasm for a global trans (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Chancellor insists Obama administration's refusal to back a 'day-to-day financial transaction tax' does not mean an end to plansAlistair Darling today pledged that the Government would step up its fight for a new internationa (Read More)
The Guardian:
A long-time supporter of a financial transactions tax says the prime minister has finally realised that the taxpayer should no longer foot the bill for banking crises and also suffer their falloutCampaigners for a global tax (Read More)
The Guardian:
Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist James Tobin originally propo (Read More)
The Guardian:
International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate changeA row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the wo (Read More)
BBC News Player | UK:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new "social contract" with the world's banks to make them more responsible to society. (Read More)
The Guardian:
The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banksThe prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure (Read More)
BBC News Player | UK:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new "social contract" with the world's banks to make them more responsible to society. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thankfully, the citizens of Tel Aviv are not as callous as national leaders when it comes to practising one tenet of the Jewish faithAt governmental level, Israel's attitude towards the 17,000 African refugees living in the c (Read More)
Huffington Post:
As we approach the climate conference in Copenhagen, politicians are balking and diplomats are burning the midnight oil, deprived of sleep. But we can take heart. Some unlikely new heroes may come to the rescue.One prospectiv (Read More)
National Review Online:
Morality is both a universal and a surprising fact about human nature. When I say that morality is universal I am not referring to this or that moral code. In fact, I am not referring to an external moral code at all. Rather, (Read More)
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