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Rana Sarkar

Rana Sarkar is a London-based partner for a firm focused on restructuring media and technology companies in the post dot.com era. He is working on a book on the life and times of the ‘cosmocracy’.

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Shattered faith

The disaster of 11 September has had a traumatising impact on the global class of business professionals, reported here by one of their number. As existential fear succeeds confident modernity, can a restored idealism help repair the emotional fragments?

The addiction of optimism

Even in New York, even after 9/11 and corporate scandal, an atmosphere of frenetic consumerism and hype grips the social elite. Is the cult of the happy ending just too endemic to let go?