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last updated: April 27, 2008

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recently posted:

• Awe, shocks! A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine

• Reflections on the current turmoil 2 Fed maneuvers, Bear Stearns, how bad the recession?, etc. (a draft of a piece forthcoming in LBO 118)

• Do you want change with that? an analysis of Obamamania from LBO 117

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Peter Linebaugh on the Magna Carta * Max Fraad Wolff, Nomi Prins, and Josh Zinner on the current crisis * Thomas Schaller: forget the South * Phoebe Damrosch on luxury cuisine.....

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