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Sybil, or the One Nation (Book Review)

It was not a bad move for Ed Miliband to co-opt One Nation Toryism for Labour. In today’s Guardian article Ed Miliband draws on Disraeli in conference speech Hélène Mulholland calls it “a political...

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The life of Comrade Hobsbawm

The Independent review of tributes by Radios 3 and 4 to the legacy of Eric Hobsbawm (Better red than dead – the life of Comrade Hobsbawm) is a good place for me to mention some of my objections to the...

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Wages are cats and profits are dogs

Does the following make sense to you? “Data from the Office for National Statistics show that between 1977 and 2008 the wage share fell from 59 per cent of national income to 53 per cent, while the...

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What the Milibands’ dad said (Book Review)

The papers reported today on Ed Miliband’s One Nation speech to the Fabian Society (see the New Statesman blog entry: Ed Miliband’s speech to the Fabian conference: full text). Miliband’s One Nation...

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Who cares if Atlas shrugged? (Book Review)

Ayn Rand chose the title of her novel carefully: Atlas Shrugged. I am not exactly sure of her motives in this but the image of Atlas shrugging conveys two scenarios: firstly of a giant whose flippant...

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The Sage of Omaha vs. the Clown Prince of Ljubljana

Here are some thinkers on political economy arranged from the extreme right to the extreme left: Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Warren Buffet, Paul Samuelson, John Maynard Keynes and Slavoj Žižek. All have...

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The real issues with Keynes

John Maynard Keynes is in the news at the moment because Niall Ferguson has had to make a fulsome apology over remarks regarding Keynes’ alleged homosexuality. As a keen advocate of rapid deficit...

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Neoliberalism Think Tank Plaint

The Independent has an article today: Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty: Iron Lady’s worshippers laud the past and lament the present. Apparently Professor Michael Wohlgemuth, director of the...

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