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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

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.

But, as Fleming points out, the demise of neoliberal economics in terms of academic credibility has not hampered its corrosive impact on jobs, health, dignity and culture.

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