Tag: Change
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Why make the World’s poor fight anew for rights we know they need
Some like to think that poor countries are simply behind us on some capitalist prosperity trajectory, with welfare as an optional extra or ultimate prize. Yet our history was bloody and violent, and why would we want that? Why make the World’s poor fight for the same rights that our ancestors desperately needed to protect…
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Steinbeck made me an economist and economics made me a writer
I grew up under Reagan/Thatcher and believed in a left-right trade-off between social justice and economic efficiency. At the end of university, where I had dropped Economics for a Politics degree I found it so uninspiring, I went on holiday and read Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The Joads were lured to California by a…