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Capitalism:
A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy
(Verso Books, £9.99)
LIKE Karl Marx, Arundhati Roy is impressed by the energy and guile of the bourgeoisie.
As she says of her book Capitalism: A Ghost Story, it is “an acknowledgment of the vision, flexibility, sophistication and unwavering determination of those who have dedicated their lives to keeping the world safe for capitalism.”
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