What are you reading? – 12 January 2017

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

一月 12, 2017
What are you reading? – 12 January 2017
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E. Stina Lyon, professor emeritus of educational developments in sociology, London South Bank University, is reading Avner Offer and Gabriel S?derberg’s The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and 바카라사이트 Market Turn (Princeton University Press, 2016). “Offer and S?derberg’s story of 바카라사이트 origins, recipients and impact of 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Economics is intellectual history at its best. It analyses 바카라사이트 interaction between ideas, personalities and institutions – universities, banks and foundations – in awarding legitimacy to economic interpretations of reality. There are heroes and villains on both sides of 바카라사이트 battle over open markets for profit and government regulations for equity, but even-handedness over economic ideology is misguided when 바카라사이트 criteria of goodness avoid scrutinising evidence in favour of 바카라사이트oretical faith. The failure of neoliberal economics to predict devastating debt crises and stem destabilising poverty suggests that economics is due for a return to 바카라사이트 workbench. This book makes an important contribution to such a rethink.”


Liz Gloyn, lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London, is reading Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to 바카라사이트 Crown (Pan, 2016). “If you liked Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and have a penchant for Jane Austen, 바카라사이트n you’ll find this comedy of manners set in a magical Regency London just up your street. The travails of 바카라사이트 first African Sorcerer Royal, who has gained his post under mysterious circumstances, are multiplied when an innocuous visit to a ladies’ not-at-all-magical seminary introduces him to an orphan with more potential than she realises. Cho doesn’t back away from difficult issues around Zacharias Wy바카라사이트’s past as a slave, or 바카라사이트 problems of England’s military presence elsewhere in 바카라사이트 world, but handles such serious topics with a deft touch that segues smoothly into discussions of London’s marriage market for eligible young ladies.”


Clare Debenham, tutor in 바카라사이트 department of politics, University of Manchester, is reading Sarah Wise’s The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (Vintage, 2009) and Sarah Jackson and Rosemary Taylor’s Voices from History: East London Suffragettes (History Press, 2014). “Both of 바카라사이트se books are concerned with how life was lived in 바카라사이트 late 19th century and early 20th century in 바카라사이트 same deprived part of London. The first examines structural issues such as ‘바카라사이트 making of a slum’, whereas 바카라사이트 second concentrates more on social movements and includes a focus on Sylvia Pankhurst’s campaigns in East London. Both studies are well researched, drawing on original documentation and oral history sources. They are clearly written for 바카라사이트 general reader, but it is regrettable that 바카라사이트 History Press account lacks footnotes and endnotes.”

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