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British Historian, Professor Niall Ferguson, revives the era of gentlemanly capitalism.

British Historian, Professor Niall Ferguson, revives the era of gentlemanly capitalism, when the point of banking was people, not money.

British Historian, Professor Niall Ferguson revives the era of gentlemanly capitalism, with a new biography of the high financier, Siegmund Warburg. A man, he says, current day bankers would do well to study. 
Serbian born physicist, Professor Vlatko Vedral argues that the idea of information holds the key to understanding our universe. 
German novelist Julia Franck explores how the effects of war are passed on from one generation to another, with lasting emotional impact.  

A moral banker abandoning a child, all reduced to ones and zeros. Illustration by Emily Kasriel.

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