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From servant to master: roots of excess, rebooting the servers
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Brian Semple
December 09, 2009
Kenneth Costa, professor of commerce
Brian Semple is Editorial Assistant at
Prospect
. After studying at the University of Oxford and City University London, he went onto work for a number of regional newspapers in Ireland before joining Prospect in February.
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