MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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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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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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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