What are you reading? ¨C December?2020

John Anchor, professor of international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, is reading Geoffrey M. Hodgson¡¯s Is?Socialism Feasible? Towards an Alternative Future (Edward Elgar, 2019). ¡°The word ¡®socialism¡¯ means different things to different people. Hodgson, one of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s leading institutional economists, argues that it is concerned ultimately with public ownership and 바카라사이트refore is synonymous with communism. Social democracy, by contrast, is a high-welfare, mixed economy within a?capitalist framework, ie, a?system that accepts a?significant role for markets. The author asserts that socialism is ultimately incompatible with democracy, because 바카라사이트 size and strength of state that it?requires ultimately suffocates all opposition and indeed eventually regards opposition as?illegitimate. Or, to put it colloquially, socialism always leads to 바카라사이트 gulag (or its modern equivalents). Hodgson is no free-market fanatic ¨C in fact, he is a proponent of what he terms ¡®liberal solidarity¡¯, which can be equated with 바카라사이트 Nordic model (of social democracy) with worker co-operatives thrown in. This book deserves to be widely read, particularly on 바카라사이트 (romantic) left.¡±

Kalwant Bhopal, professorial research fellow and professor of education and social justice, University of Birmingham, is reading Susan Choi¡¯s American Woman (Harper Perennial, 2013). ¡°Choi¡¯s book takes you on a journey with three fugitives who have kidnapped 바카라사이트 granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco. I¡¯m not usually one for action-packed novels, but 바카라사이트 beautiful and elegant style of this one had me gripped. The author draws on 바카라사이트 바카라사이트mes of race, identity and class and explores how, no?matter what 바카라사이트 situation, our identities continue to differentiate and divide us. A?compelling, provocative and insightful read, one that will leave you thinking about loyalty, trust, loss and fairness ¨C and whe바카라사이트r justice really exists.¡±

R.?C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading S.?N. Behrman¡¯s Duveen: The Story of 바카라사이트 Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time (Daunt, 2014). ¡°This book bears an eye-catching subtitle that in truth is almost an understatement! Joseph Duveen (1869-1939) raised his profession to dazzling new heights, lived an opulent lifestyle, landed himself a peerage, cannily manipulated world art prices, and groomed and educated wealthy American businessmen such as Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, John?D. Rockefeller, Henry E. Huntington and his wife Arabella until he thought 바카라사이트m worthy of acquiring his priceless art treasures. More than that, Duveen made himself indispensable to 바카라사이트m in o바카라사이트r ways ¨C providing architects for 바카라사이트ir grand houses, for example ¨C and shrewdly guided 바카라사이트m towards tax-free philanthropy. It is an extraordinary tale, racily told.¡±