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The loss of virtue and the economic crisis: A talk by Theodore Dalrymple

3rd February 2011

The Iona Institute hosted a talk on Thursday January 27th by Anthony Daniels, better known by his pen name Theodore Dalrymple, in which he argued that the global economic crisis was triggered by a decline in virtue.