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No interest in a fairer society

Faced with global economic turmoil, one of the worst recessions since the Second World War, and the resurgence of the right, we seem to be witnessing an action replay of events in the 1920s and 1930s.

Faith in conventional economics and economists has failed us. We are asked to support bail-outs for those who caused the problem, and austerity measures for everyone else.