Aspire Issue 12: Autumn/Winter 2012/2013

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Welcome to Aspire

I would like to welcome you to the 12th edition of Aspire. With this issue, we celebrate the renaming of the Business School and honour the long association that the University has had with Adam Smith, the father of modern economics.

Emeritus Professor and Adam Smith expert Christopher Berry looks at Smith’s most enduring legacy – the Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Stuart Leckie, CEO of Stirling Finance, who helped the School celebrate the launch of the new school by giving a lecture in November, gives us an insider’s look at investment funds in China. This issue also features contributions from Valerio Cerratano on the changing role of central banks; Marco Guidi on financial institutions, opportunistic strategies and government debt guarantees and Gabriel Talmain on enlarging economics unions.

We are also pleased to include updates from our alumni in the popular pathways section of Aspire. The School’s alumni are an important and vibrant part of the Adam Smith Business School community, and we always value their news, views and contributions to the life of the school. I would like to give warm thanks to those friends of the School who have helped us to celebrate this landmark year in the Adam Smith Business School, and ask you to join with us to see what exciting developments the future holds. I know this will be a year of achievement and tremendous growth for the School, and I look forward to seeing what the future holds.

Professor Farhad Noorbakhsh
Head of School