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The finance curse and the British economy

The finance curse and the British economy—how the City extracts value and kills the regions

I read The Finance Curse a while ago but have only just got round to constructing a review. The book, by Nicholas Shaxson, was published in 2018, and is about the effects of an over-developed finance sector on the British economy. As you read it, you realise also that it explains the political economy of the United Kingdom. (I’m told that something similar happens with Oliver Bullough’s two books…

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Sixes and Sevens #43

Sixes and Sevens #43. This week: Frederick Douglass on US Independence Day, Case and Deaton on America’s health catastrophe, ten science fiction books to help build the future, why the UK needs a national care service. And Gil Scott-Heron.

Sixes and Sevens: a collection of the contextual, the cultural, and other things that catch my eye.

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Frederick Douglass’ gave a famous speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July to the slave. Or, as he put in the speech, your Fourth of July.

The despair at the heart of American society. Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton on the…

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