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Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2009.02059.x
Subject(s) - politics , antisemitism , skepticism , capitalism , george (robot) , indignation , sociology , economic history , religious studies , law , political science , art history , history , theology , philosophy , judaism
Books reviewed in this issue. The Doubting President
SELINA CHEN The Audacity of Hope , by Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance , by Barack Obama. Old age and new economics
David Metz The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World , by George Magnus. Vindicating the state
Gianfranco Pasquino In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation , by Warvick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew. Italian communists and the USSR
Maud Anne Bracke Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography , by Aldo Agosti. Antisemitism in the hall of mirrors
Brian Klug Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism , by Denis MacShane. Taking on the sceptics
Rosemary Bechler Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Approach , by Gillian Brock. Financial scandals: the lessons from France
Robert Boyce Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France, Past and Present , by Paul Jankowski: Berghahn. Fewer Willys but more consensus
Matthew Grant Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970 , by Brian Harrison.The crunching of classical economics
Paul AuerbachThe Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It , by Robert J Shiller. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism , by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.