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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for …
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Confessions of a radical economics prof
…I realized another problem. The students who believed in the radical view were also convinced that large corporations were so powerful that nothing could be done about them. Instead of inspiring my students to radical activism, I had taught them …
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All Consuming: How Shopping Got Us Into This Mess And How We Can Find Our Way Out
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, there were 129 shoplifters in prison; now there are 1,400. This dark side of our consumer culture is hardly ever discussed. Prison is an easy way to deal with the symptom, but …
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The Comfort of Things
Looking around at the ornaments, it is only too easy for people from another background and a different system of values to dismiss these things as kitsch. Plastic and plaster, bright colours, not a single flower that is real. Yet …
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Marcovaldo
At the summons of the loudspeaker, the crowd of customers was gripped by a frantic haste, as if these were the last minutes in the last supermarket of the whole world, an urgency either to grab everything there was or …
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