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The playthings of our leaders

16 May 2014

There is a big political row about the US drug company Pfizer’s bid to buy its British rival AstraZeneca. It is interesting that it is a row because for at least three decades it has been claimed in Britain, at least, that ownership does not matter and, as I discuss on pp. 106-7 of the book, there has been a wholesale sell-off of what were once British companies (other countries, including the US, have been somewhat more wary of seeing ownership drift offshore). We have thus had the bizarre di
politics leadership neo-liberalism pharma

Authors

Chris Grey

Length
541 words
Published in
United Kingdom
Rights
© Chris Grey

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