One for the converted
Tim Gooding articulates a bold and detailed vision for complexity and agent-based economics, but ultimately left me feeling frustrated with a book isolated by its insistence on standing so far …
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Bitter Wheat by David Mamet
Bitter Wheat has been playing in London’s West End since June 7th. It stars John Malkovich, and is scripted and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning Theatre Beast, David Mamet. It …
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On purpose
Campaigners seeking deep transformation of the economy should look no further for ideas than Colin Mayer’s book, Prosperity. Within it they will find a surprisingly radical agenda even if they …
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Incisive, yet is the mustard cut?
Foundational Economy – The infrastructure of everyday life by The Foundational Economy Collective, Manchester University Press ISBN: 978-1-5261-3400-4 A collective at Manchester University has, through intensive research, concluded that a …
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Revealing the fudge in ‘Nudge Economics’
Professor Sugden, a renowned and celebrated pioneer of behavioural economics, has written an important book. In it he skewers the “nudge economics” fudge that maintains the illusion of the possibility …
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Book Review: Bending the Rules
Review of Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States. Derek Wall has fashioned a short guide for radicals from the work of a non-radical economics …
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The Lehman Triology – More Brechtian than Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, the marxist dramatist and innovator, believed by moving away from sentimental, emotive theatre, he could allow theatre goers to think. He called this theory of distancing the audience …
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Short and Sweet
In remarkably few words Nick Silver gets to many points in his biting analysis of the global financial system, Finance, Society and Sustainability. It’s all good – more would be …
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Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
by L. Randall Wray (2016) Princeton University Press. Ever since the global financial crisis struck, the concept of “a Minsky moment” – a tipping-point at which a euphoric and highly-leveraged …
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