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Sugar Daddy Capitalism exposes the grim reality of many who come into contact with neoliberal authoritarianism at work or in their private life, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
A recognition that individually we are powerless both politically and socially is essential, writes GORDON PARSONS
Sugar Daddy Capitalism: The Dark Side of the New Economy
by Peter Fleming
(Polity, £15.99)
SUGAR Daddy Capitalism by Peter Fleming is an autopsy on the creed of Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman and their Chicago School disciples, figures now dismissed by serious economists as relics of the cold war.
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He suggests that the economy has been reshaped in the image of the sex industry. It commodifies and exploits us, turning us into pimps and hustlers — a powerful metaphor for capitalism’s arbitrary cruelties, but there are cases in which it is literally true.
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