From Nigel Johnson
Please compare and contrast recent quotes from Â鶹´«Ã½. First, from the piece on global capitalism (22 October, p 8), the researchers involved stated: “Concentration of power is not good or bad in itself.”
Then, in Laura Spinney’s analysis of corruption (5 November, p 42), Samuel Bendahan of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology stated: “Power should come with more built-in checks and balances”, and you quoted British historian Lord Acton: “all power tends to corrupt”.
Discuss.
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