Archive for May, 2017
Utopia for miserabilists
27 May 2017My latest book review was published in the Spiked Review yesterday. From the title onwards, Utopia for Realists is an exercise in sophistry. Despite the ample use of revolutionary rhetoric, the consequence of its proposals would be a hyper-austerity that would make the most hawkish free marketeer blush. Let’s start with the book’s outsized claims. […]
- Tags: book, economics, inequality, media appearances, review
The Givers – full text of review
11 May 2017This is the full text of my book review that was in the Financial Times last Friday. At first sight it is hard to see how anyone could object. Many of the world’s richest people are devoting vast sums towards helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. In some cases, the causes […]
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The Givers
7 May 2017On Friday the Financial Times published my review of David Callahan’s The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. I will upload the text in the next few days but in the meantime it is available to read here (you may need to register to gain access).
- Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review
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