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Book Review: The Political Power of the Business Corporation

Thanks to successful wealth generation and ideological victories, the large business corporation has become an effective political actor and has entered into partnership with government in the design...

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Book Review: Myths, Politicians, and Money: The Truth Behind the Free Market

Had things worked out differently, Bryan Gould could well have become Britain’s first foreign-born Prime Minister. Instead, he became the Master of Wellington University, and a noted economist and...

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Book Review: Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the business model of international banks is under pressure. Regulators across the world are retrenching to national lines by applying restrictions on...

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Book Review: London 2012: How Was It For Us?

The memories of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will remain with us forever, but what did those four weeks tell us about ourselves, our society’s values and its possibilities? This collection...

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Book Review: Hedge Fund Structure, Regulation and Performance around the World

Hedge funds and their managers have been vilified in recent times for their high-risk activities and relative lack of regulatory oversight. However, while it is frequently suggested that hedge funds...

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Book Review: Progressive Politics After the Crash: Governing from the Left

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. Instead,...

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Book Review: Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain by Paul...

Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain sets out to investigate the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997....

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Book Review: Why Fight Poverty? by Julia Unwin

This book looks back at the struggle to rid the UK of poverty and asks if the struggle is worth it. What would a poverty free country be like if we could overcome the obstacles which impede progress?...

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Book Review: Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View by Kartik B....

In this book, Kartik B. Athreya aims to offer a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and models in macroeconomics, arguing for their value as interpretive tools as well as their policy...

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Book Review: Will China Dominate the 21st Century? by Jonathan Fenby

In this short and accessible book Jonathan Fenby successfully traces the huge inadequacies of the Chinese state from suffocating authoritarianism to long term economic mismanagement. The beauty of...

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