It’s the economy, stupid

Robin Ramsay

The Gods that Failed How blind faith in markets has cost us our future Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson London: The Bodley Head, 2008, p/b, £12.99 This is E and A’s third book together. It was published just before the previous, June issue of Lobster.(1) Their first book, The Age of Insecurity (reviewed in Lobster ... Read more

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