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Do bankers make the world better?

New research at Oxford University suggests that if you want to make the world a better place, you would be better off becoming a banker rather than an aid worker. Dr Will Crouch, who was involved in the research and Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye and presenter of When Bankers Were Good discuss why this may be the case.


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