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Article: BEST OF THE BLOGS: Stuart Smith on the UK economy.(Brief article)
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- Marketing Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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One thing Sir James Dyson loathes is the parasitical financial system that has brought the UK economy to its knees. Wealth for wealth's sake simply won't do. Why can't we make money from actually making things?
It's a fair question, and in posing it authoritatively Dyson lays claim to being the latest in a long but thinning line of great British engineers: James Watt, Matthew Boulton, George Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Sir Frank Whittle. When I say "engineers" I mean they were - like Archimedes - far more besides: inventors, fearless contrarians, entrepreneurs and industrialists rather than merely technical experts or industrial designers ...