Review of Econned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

Yves Smith, Econned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, Palgrave Macmillan 2010, 363 pages

Econned by Yves Smith has three great merits: what it says is largely accurate, largely interesting and largely new. Most parts of it have two of these virtues. Where it is accurate and (at least to many readers) novel, the appeal tends to fade; where it is accurate and interesting, it can claim little originality, if any; where it is interesting and new, it can

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