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Book review: The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl (by Nina Power, September/October 2011 ): Nina Power appreciates a sharp critique of consumerism
Of human greed: Laurie Taylor interviews David Harvey (by Laurie Taylor, July/August 2010 ): A search for the reasons for the economic meltdown has prompted a turn back to Marx. Laurie Taylor meets the “dialectical materialist” geographer David Harvey who, 40 years into his career, is suddenly being taken seriously
The God Market: How Globalisation is Making India More Hindu by Meera Nanda (by Edna Fernandes, January/February 2010 ): Edna Fernandes isn't quite convinced by an explanation of India's religious nationalism
Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff (by Michael Bywater, July/August 2009 ): Michael Bywater takes on the corporations with Douglas Rushkoff
Not all that is solid (by Kevin Doogan, May/June 2009 ): The traditional cloth-cap economy has melted into one which is fluid, global, insecure and indifferent to people and communities. A useful story if you want to manufacture uncertainty, says Kevin Doogan, just not true
In praise of the coup (by Paul Collier, March/April 2009 ): Military takeovers can be a good thing for African democracy. Paul Collier makes the case
Zero confidence (by Steven Lukes, November/December 2008 ): Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing . . . no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression
Thinker: Adam Smith (by Nicholas Phillipson, March/April 2007 ): Nicholas Phillipson explains why the ideas of Adam Smith are still common currency today
End Game: Smarty pants (by Laurie Taylor, March/April 2007 ): Laurie Taylor finds he's too clever for his own good
Best of enemies (by Steven Lukes, May/June 2006 ): Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes
History and the Enterprise of Knowledge (by Amartya Sen, Summer 2001 ): Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the battleground of history