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The Reith Lectures 1985

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Innocence and Design
Six talks about the influence of economic ideas on policy by David Henderson , Head of the Economics and Statistics
Department in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
2: Soap Opera in High Places
'Soap opera: the disposition to ascribe to particular elements within an economic system - industries, sectors, products, processes or activities - intrinsic qualities which (it is thought) should influence the way in which governments treat them. I use the term because I believe this approach to economic issues resembles soap opera in its crude assumptions and in its failure to reflect the depth and complexity of real life.'
(Re-broadcast on Sun at 9.30pm on R3) (Lecture 3: next Wednesday on Radio 4) (Lectures are printed in THE LISTENER)

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David Henderson
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