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Another Round: How the Treasury keeps you poor

Economist - and Knight of the Realm - Paul Collier swung by JOETowers to chat about regional inequality in the UK, the Treasury's role in creating it, and how to fix it.


His new book Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places is out now.

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