WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
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.
[Dominic Alves/CC] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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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