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Recession Blues (Soundings)

Recession Blues (Soundings)

by JonathanRutherford (Editor)

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    Paperback 2009

    $112.82
Synopsis

The financial elite and economists in the academic and commercial sectors have for many years been colluding in ignoring the inevitability of the impending crash. This of course now has the useful additional effect of everyone being able to say that nobody could have foreseen what has happened. When this dominant narrative has been disturbed by critical economists, they have been dismissed as doom-mongers (before the crash) or gloaters (afterwards). Some have described dominant economics as autistic, and this does in some ways capture the sealed world of the financial elite and their collaborators in the academy. However, dominant economic practitioners, unlike those suffering from autism, have for a long time been able to remake the world to correspond to their theories, because their world view is linked to power. In this issue a range of contributors put forward a different analysis of recent economic history. Other articles discuss adults and responsibility, life in debt, Iraq, food sovereignty, and images of the undeserving poor; the final two articles discuss the efforts of the government to dismantle the public service ethos of general practice, as plans continue apace to hand over service delivery to the very same business interests who have shown themselves to be so self-interested and incompetent in their operations elsewhere.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Published: 01 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 1905007957
ISBN 13: 9781905007950

Author Bio
Notes on contributors Stephen Amiel has been a GP at the Caversham Group Practice in North London for thirty years, where he also teaches medical students and doctors in training. He chairs the local medical committee, supporting general practice and GPs at local and national level. He has broadcast extensively, and edited books on family violence and healthcare self-help. Zygmunt Bauman is one of EuropeA's leading sociologists. His latest book is Art of Life, Polity Press, 2008. Anita Biressi is Reader in Media Cultures at Roehampton University. Anita and Heather Nunn are currently researching the mediaA's articulation of class, social difference and individual aspiration for a forthcoming book. Tony Blackshaw works at ShefA eld Hallam University and is author of Zygmunt Bauman, Routledge 2005. Siddhartha Bose is currently completing a PhD on the grotesque at Queen MaryA's, University of London. He has trained as an actor, made short A lms, and is presently completing his A rst collection of poetry. Andrea Brady studied at Columbia University and Cambridge, and now teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books of poetry include Vacation of a Lifetime (Salt, 2001). She is a co-director of the Archive of the Now www. archiveofthenow.org. Kate Crawford is an Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of the award- winning book Adult Themes, Macmillan 2006. Pat Devine is a co-author of Feelbad Britain, Lawrence and Wishart 2009. Toby Dodge is a Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include, IraqA's future: the aftermath of regime change, Routledge 2005; and Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation building and a history denied, Columbia University Press 2003. Julie Froud is a member of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester University (www.cresc.ac.uk). She is the joint editor of the journal Competition and Change. www.maney.co.uk.