GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Hand grenade blows indoctrination apart
The Econocracy is an explosive assault on the ubiquitous 'expert' dissemination of capitalist-friendly economics, says IAN SINCLAIR
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
The Econocracy: On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins
(Penguin, £9.99)
WHILE studying economics at the University of Manchester, the three authors of Econocracy became disillusioned with how little their education was helping them understand the causes and aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
In response, they set up the Post-Crash Economics Society and are now members of the Rethinking Economics network linking 40 groups in 13 countries.
Their broad thesis in the book is that economists wield a huge amount of influence in society — think of the importance the media gives to the post-budget analysis of the Institute for Fiscal Studies — but have become dangerously disconnected from the general population, with little public oversight.
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