New Statesman: The end of risk

Swaths of regulation and an industry of “fear entrepreneurs” have fuelled a climate of timidity … “There have been loads of these reports in recent years,” says Paul Sanderson, a senior fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. “The government message is: ‘Learn to love risk – we can’t protect you from everything for ever,’ but there is not much evidence so far of any change in practice.” Nonetheless, he himself is organising an academic conference in September, optimistically entitled “The End of Zero Risk Regulation”.

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