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Fantasy economics
WILL PODMORE recommends an analysis of the utopian thinking that underlies the rise of bourgeois economics
DUPED: Customers queueing to withdraw their savings from Northern Rock, the top UK mortgage lender in Brighton, September 2007. The lender went bust due to problems in the US "subprime" lending market.
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When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power
RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
In this comparison of Britain pre- and post Thatcher, WILL POMORE applauds the analysis, but distrusts the solutions offered
MARIA DUARTE defends a solid, late-career Spielberg conspiracy flick that calls for empathy in a hostile world
Ricardo’s dream: how economists forgot the real world and led us astray
Nat Dyer, Bristol University Press, £14.99
NAT DYER is a writer and researcher specialising in global political economy, a fellow of the Schumacher Institute and the Royal Society of Arts.
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