The great reckoning

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Chapter Chapter 7 in Going South, 2012, pp 235-268 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Parker’s Piece is where town meets gown in Cambridge. It is a slab of green open space to the south of the city centre where, it is said, the rules of Association Football were first drawn up in the nineteenth century. At the centre of Parker’s Piece there is a lamp-post built by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow, a company that did not outlast the reign of Queen Victoria. Since the 1970s its local claim to fame has been words etched on it by a student at what was then the Cambridge College for Arts and Technology: ‘Reality Checkpoint’. The centre of Parker’s Piece was where the cosseted, privileged world of the university ended and the real world began.

Keywords: Interest Rate; Central Bank; International Monetary Fund; Global Economy; World Economic Forum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39255-7_8

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