In the week of the World Economic Forum Rani Singh talks to Angel Gurría, head of the OECD, who has sharp words on capitalist ‘schizophrenia’ and a coded warning for Gordon
‘Because of the miners’ strike we were all asked to have only one light bulb on. My wife and I had to take baths together in order to economise on heating the water and since then we’ve always taken baths together, for 35 years,’ booms Angel Gurría in a surprising aside, recalling Ted Heath’s premiership. The 57-year-old was then an MA Economics student at Leeds University. He is now secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Gurría’s brightly lit office is in a former Rothschild mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is the eve of the annual Davos super-fest when the world’s most powerful political and economic leaders get together to mend the world and to network hard in a sleepy Swiss resort.
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