Article 5VA18 Minouche Shafik: ‘The idea that you are successful because you are hardworking is pernicious’

Minouche Shafik: ‘The idea that you are successful because you are hardworking is pernicious’

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Phillip Inman
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The LSE's director and former Bank of England economist is outspoken over the need for a reset of the wider capitalist system

Minouche Shafik seemed destined for the top job at the Bank of England when she arrived in 2014, but becoming the first female governor was not to be.

She only spent two years inside the Bank's imposing offices on Threadneedle Street before quitting as deputy governor to head the London School of Economics.

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