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Boom Bust Boom is an odd little documentary co-written by Terry Jones, formerly of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. In it, an assortment of experts take us on a tour through the great busts of financial markets, all the way back to the bursting of the colossal tulip bubble of 1637. We hear from economists Dan Ariely, Zvi Bodie, Andy Haldane and Robert J. Shiller, economic journalists Paul Krugman, John Cassidy and Paul Mason, and deceased economists... Читать дальше...

Bernie Sanders achieved a stunning and unprecedented victory in Michigan Tuesday night, winning the Democratic primary 50.1 percent to 48 percent and potentially changing the course of the presidential campaign.

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (Feminist Press) is a collection of 57 short essays and interviews with a self-explanatory title: It aims to convey what utopia might look in a feminist world. Or, at least what utopia looks like to some kinds of feminists, and what some kinds of feminism look like in some utopias. Notably missing are discussions of capitalism and visions of utopias for women over 40.