May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 8m
English
The economist Lord John Eatwell is currently at the top of his game, president of Queen’s College at Cambridge and a peer of the realm. It’s hard to believe that in 1970 he was just another postgraduate student, hoping to get a fellowship that might determine whether his university career would gain traction.
Cambridge, like most elite universities (and most Fortune 500 companies) is a fiercely competitive place, and for every plum position, there are a ton of people with stellar résumés to fill it. “I’d published papers, I had the qualifications,” Eatwell says. “But it was far from certain that I’d get the spot. Academic committees are very political beings. One needs a word in various ears. It just isn’t good enough to ...