Michael Stewart most recent book, Controlling the Economic Future, was reviewed here by David Marquand (LRB, Vol. 6, No 12).
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As the name they gave their subject implied, the great political economists of the 19th century knew that the economy cannot be studied fruitfully in isolation from the polity. The notion that...
After a decade of decline, the old, Fabian right of the Labour Party is now so chastened that it is hard to remember that it was once the dominant tradition in British left-wing politics. These...
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