I Never Knew That About London
by Christopher Winn · 3 Oct 2007 · 395pp · 94,764 words
Love in the 1984 film version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Clapham The Man in the Street THE EXPRESSION ‘THE man on the Clapham omnibus’, meaning the ordinary man on the street, is attributed to the Appeal Court Judge, Lord Bowen (1835–94). He adapted it from journalist Walter Bagehot
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’s phrase ‘the bald-headed man at the back of the Clapham omnibus’, used to describe a normal London man, Clapham being regarded in the 19th century as a quiet, unexceptional sort of place. The CLAPHAM SECT was
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words
assessment.” I have no idea what “haiku-like” rules are or how they can help us understand how an economy works. The man on the Clapham omnibus would, rightly, likely think it was worthless mumbo-jumbo. I have been especially struck by claims celebrating that the practice of macroeconomics is firmly grounded
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of the man or woman commuting on the train or bus or, as he put it, worry about the welfare of the “man on the Clapham omnibus.”1 In part this was to ensure that economists did no harm, and also because Bernard understood that this bus passenger was paying his salary
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RBS “fame,” of his in 2012.45 Ordinary people are aware that different rules appear to apply to them. The man (or woman) on the Clapham omnibus just doesn’t understand. Nor should he. I recall listening to billionaire John Cauldwell, who is the cofounder of mobile phone UK retailer Phone 4U
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growing in the G7 to the slowest. Chapter 7. Sniffing the Air and Spotting the Great Recession 1. Lempert explains that the man on the Clapham omnibus is the “judicially constructed image of a sane, sober but not extraordinarily gifted person who never takes unreasonable chances, and does nothing extraordinary, but does
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National Surveys in Finland during 1978/9–1992.” Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 23 (5): 269–76. Lempert, R. O. 2003. “Following the Man on the Clapham Omnibus: Social Science Evidence in Malpractice Litigation.” Law and Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003–2009, University of Michigan Law School. Leontief, W. 1971. “Theoretical Assumptions and
Lonely Planet London City Guide
by Tom Masters, Steve Fallon and Vesna Maric · 31 Jan 2010
3 Routh Rd, home to the former British prime minister David Lloyd George. Return to beginning of chapter CLAPHAM The so-called ‘man on the Clapham omnibus’ – English civil law’s definition of the hypothetical reasonable person since the turn of the 20th century – has largely left this neighbourhood. Today Clapham is
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
by Tom Standage · 16 Aug 2021 · 290pp · 85,847 words
bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus.” This observation may explain the subsequent adoption by English courts of the hypothetical “man on the Clapham omnibus” as the standard for an ordinary, reasonable person. Compared with previous vehicles, from war chariots to fancy coaches, the omnibus was far more egalitarian. Its
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words
we evolve into creatures that have no such needs, and have erased the desires to hunt and gather from our nature, there will be a Clapham omnibus, or its latter-day equivalent, ferrying people between their places of labour and rest. Unless, of course, we won’t have to work in the
Social Class in the 21st Century
by Mike Savage · 5 Nov 2015 · 297pp · 89,206 words
of the things in the bank, and I know why I was there – I mean, he used to say I was the man on the Clapham omnibus, but no, it was to ask the awkward question, and then they could go out of the meeting and say, ‘Well, it’s just John
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by James E. Lovelock · 1 Jan 2009 · 239pp · 68,598 words
the events and the feelings we had then and those now. I was not quite that archetype, the man in the street or on the Clapham omnibus, but was close enough: a young man on a footpath, fairly sure that real war would soon begin even though there were still deniers, among
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
by Tim Shipman · 30 Nov 2017 · 721pp · 238,678 words
boss was coming from,’ a fellow cabinet minister said. ‘He does believe, rightly, that she has a good feeling for how a man on the Clapham omnibus feels about the rights and wrongs of the world.’ But the chancellor would say, ‘I can see what you’re trying to achieve, but the
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words
of a bad bunch of possible terms. For example, we do not like ‘ordinary people’, ‘non-professionals’, or indeed the lawyer’s ‘man on the Clapham Omnibus’. 20 As Freidson puts it: ‘the claims, values, and ideas that provide the rationale for … professionalism.’ See Eliot Freidson, Professionalism (2001), 105. 21 William Wickenden
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
not exhibit quite the baroque array of behaviours seen on the Feinberg Express, but it will throw up some which the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus would find grossly offensive. This is, of course, even more true on the internet. The British newspaper columnist Suzanne Moore found—online, of course—an
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos · 10 Oct 2011 · 396pp · 107,814 words
Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
by Jacob Turner · 29 Oct 2018 · 688pp · 147,571 words