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Book Review: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton
Why is the human race so oblivious to the danger of climate change, even when it is staring it in the face?
Read More »Economic Debate: Who is Getting the Better End of the Deal, the Rich or the Poor?
Economics may seem simple for some, but our policy is badly broken.
Read More »Book Review: The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do by Eduardo Porter
A price for everything; everything for a price
Read More »Book Review: The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective by Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough (eds)
Consumption patterns and desires are very much historical artefacts, created by the culture and psychology of particular societies.
Read More »Book Review: All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
If there is only time to read one book about the recent financial crisis, this should probably be it.
Read More »Prop 8 and the Future of the American Family
The American family has been under strain for decades.
Read More »Book Review: The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier
While the author's more self-aware than most, he's still an economist, with some enormous intellectual blindspots.
Read More »Too Complicated to Explain: The Journalist’s Complaint
When a journalist or commentator says something is too complicated to explain, he means too complicated for him to explain.
Read More »Book Review: Elsewhere, U.S.A. by Dalton Conley
“Today the richest ten percent earns five to six times that of the poorest ten percent.”
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