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The Observer:
Wayne Rooney symbolises the greed that laid us low

24 October 2010

Last week, as [Wayne] Rooney demanded a salary of £10.4m, the City prepared to gorge itself on a bonus pot of £7bn. "If you had just come back from a couple of years on a desert island you could be forgiven for thinking that the crash had not happened," Brian Bell, an authority on Britain's extreme wealth inequality from the London School of Economics, told me. He added, somewhat unnecessarily, that the failure to learn the lessons of the past makes a future crash more likely.

This article appeared in The Observer on October 24, 2010
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Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage

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