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General Motors failure ‘Darwinian’?
Adapt and evolve… or die
Economics and Darwinism have a lot in common.
The Nurse has been keeping a weather eye on General Motors for a few years now – ensconced in clink at Her Majesty’s Pleasure - and she isn’t surprised they’ve gone belly up.
Over the past decade GM resisted positive change on a spectacular scale. While many Americans turned to smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles, GM [...]The 1970s economic crash – a familiar story?
Margaret Drabble could be writing about 2008
Without books The Nurse would go mental. She devours books. Locked up in here, they are her only glimpse into the outside world. Which she hasn’t seen for a very, very long time.
Today The Nurse is re-reading a tattered copy of an old favourite by Margaret Drabble, written in 1979 and set in the mid [...]
