http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/martin_vander_weyer en http://www.newstatesman.com/200605220034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200605220034 Mon, 22 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer The Wal-Mart Effect: how an out-of-town superstore became a superpower Charles Fishman Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 294pp, £12.99 ISBN 0713998253

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200512120040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200512120040 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer Top Man: how Philip Green built his high street empire Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester Aurum Press, 256pp, £18.99 ISBN 1845131002

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200502280013 http://www.newstatesman.com/200502280013 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer Fair trade special - It's unfair when poor countries can't sell their goods here. It's also unfair that, when they do, low prices depend on sweated labour. Martin Vander Weyer tackles the confusing moral issues

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010029 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010029 Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer 2005: Self-esteem - Aromatherapy, life gurus, shiatsu: self-esteem will be even bigger business in the coming year. Is that because we are feeling terribly insecure, or is it just self-indulgence?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200303240016 http://www.newstatesman.com/200303240016 Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer That, more or less, is the advice of the billionaire Warren Buffett: even if the Iraq war ends quickly, the world economy still has multiple problems

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200108060011 http://www.newstatesman.com/200108060011 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer All the parties sought its approval during the election, but it sees itself as unravelling the deceits of politicians. The Institute for Fiscal Studies profiled

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200104230018 http://www.newstatesman.com/200104230018 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer From this month, salesmen will be offering the low-paid a new type of pension. But Martin Vander Weyersuspects that, as usual, only the rich will gain

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200102190006 http://www.newstatesman.com/200102190006 Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer detects a loss of national confidence behind our growing practice of filling top posts from overseas

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200008140007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200008140007 Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer Wealth is no longer the target of class envy. Now the press goes gunning for men and women of taste, influence and cool

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200006120013 http://www.newstatesman.com/200006120013 Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:00:00 GMT Martin Vander Weyer From tradesmen to trustafarians in four generations: a nose for business has turned into anxiety for the planet. The Sainsbury family profiled

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