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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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ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
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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MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
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JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism