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Vectors of Inflation

Radhika Desai New Left Review
The real culprit here is the diminution of US productive capacity and supply chain disruption caused by four decades of neoliberal policies – disinvestment, deregulation, outsourcing - which have prevented supply-side measures to bring prices down.

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Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Sibo Chen LSE Review of Books
This book situates the climate crisis in a socioeconomic context, showing, writes reviewer Chen, how events like big wildfires are "important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity that urges the public to challenge the status quo."
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