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From: economics for beginners Category: Art Date: 31 December 2008 Time: 07:02 AM Review: This book published during the 90s recession is startlingly clear in its analyis which descibes very well the present recession(crunch cricis et al). Reading it again you feel that it must be popular among democrats and labourites, and how apt his diagnosis is that enough people are content in the short term not to care about the long term poverty, environment, underclass etc in the long term, with bailouts only coming when the contented are threatened, eg with banks failing. Also he is good on how the well off invent theories (like economics) stifling all debate, which justify or even eulogize their disproportionate share of the spoils of capitalism, the deserving rich and the "it's their fault" poor. The deserving well off pay for and populate the universities, think tanks, and political classes and funnily enough theory proves that the status quo is best for all. Short and sweet, so give it a try even if you're frightened by nomics.