Martin Vander Weyer

Articles by Martin Vander Weyer

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The bottom line

  • 22 May 2006

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

A bit rich

  • 12 December 2005

Top Man: how Philip Green built his high street empire Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester Aurum Press, 256pp, £18.99 ISBN 1845131002

Can free trade be fair trade?

  • 28 February 2005

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

Viagra for the economy

  • 01 January 2005

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?

You won't make money, so make love . . .

  • 24 March 2003

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

The New Statesman Profile - Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • 06 August 2001

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

A stake worth holding?

  • 23 April 2001

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

Why Brits prefer foreign bosses

  • 19 February 2001

Martin Vander Weyer detects a loss of national confidence behind our growing practice of filling top posts from overseas

So, who still wants to be a millionaire?

  • 14 August 2000

Wealth is no longer the target of class envy. Now the press goes gunning for men and women of taste, influence and cool

The New Statesman Profile - The Sainsbury family

  • 12 June 2000

From tradesmen to trustafarians in four generations: a nose for business has turned into anxiety for the planet. The Sainsbury family profiled

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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