Aberdeen's Gilbert: Five years on from the Kay Review and institutions are still too short-termist

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"The epic story of Ulysses tying himself to the mast to resist the call of the sirens demonstrates the length of the history of attempts to construct devices and institutions to combat our instinctive short-termism."

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