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Sunday, March 29, 2015
"Cubed" by Nikil Saval: A Novel History of the Place of Work
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This is one of those books that ended up getting a good bit of press because it was a novel way of looking at something that is an everyd...
"Chavs" by Owen Jones: Deserved More Attention in the States
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I wrote a couple of friends from the Isles to explain what a Chav was to me. It’s a term we don’t have here in the states, and I was lookin...
On "The incredible shrinking alpha"
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I’ve recently read “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” in the new edition. This is basically a pocket version of that. Active ma...
The Money Game is Your Grandfather's "Liar's Poker"
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Every generation, a writer and their books pop up that show the back end of Wall Street and its ilk running back to Bagehot’s...
"The New Prophets of Capital" by Nicole Aschoff: Red Rosa for the New Age
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This is a book in the Jacobin / Verso partnership, which puts together one of my favorite magazines with my favorite radical publisher. ...
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