Presentation to a ‘Lighthouse Leadership Series’ luncheon hosted by the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Perth, WA, on 2^nd November 2016.
The title is an intentional allusion to a series of articles by John Maynard Keynes which appeared in the London Evening Standard in July 1925, discussing the consequences of Churchill’s decision (as Chancellor of the Exchequer) to return sterling to the gold standard at its pre-World War I parity, which were subsequently published in Essays in Persuasion.

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