B&B: The dangerous ‘free will’ | Business of scholarship | From hippies into consumers | Books on politics and markets | The poor as an alien | Banks and the Racial Gap

— Turning hippies into Reagan voters: The values of the 1960’s countercultural movement (liberation, freedom, etc) were co-opted by corporations and used to perpetuate a culture of consumption and production. An interview with Carl Cederström, an author of The Happiness Fantasy — Mariana Mazzucato recommends 5 books explaining how political forces shape the markets: Franzen’s […]