[Mgs] Lord Nuffield gets a shout out in The Economist

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Didn't realize C.S. Lewis held any animosity towards the Morris!


A special report on entrepreneurship
An idea whose time has come
Mar 12th 2009
>From The Economist print edition
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Britainbs Oxford University used to nurture one of the longest traditions of anti-entrepreneurial prejudice in the world. The dons valued bgentlemanlyb subjects such as classics or philosophy over anything that smacked of butilityb. (bHe gets degrees in making jam/at Liverpool and Birmingham,b went one popular ditty.) The students dreamed of careers in the civil service or the law rather than business, still less entrepreneurship. bHow I hate that man,b was the writer C.S. Lewisbs tart comment on Lord Nuffield, his citybs greatest entrepreneur and his universitybs most generous benefactor.

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