Links tagged with “johnlanchester”
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John Lanchester · Good New Idea: Universal Basic Income · LRB 18 July 2019
Seems like a decent overview of the options, nicely written as ever.
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How Civilization Started | The New Yorker
John Lanchester on re-evaluating the ease of life for hunter gatherers vs settled societies. (via @cityofsound)
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London Review of Books - You Are the Product
John Lanchester on Facebook.
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John Lanchester · Are we having fun yet?: The Biggest Scandal of All · LRB 4 July 2013
This and the second part are so worth a read. Banks are mind-boggling.
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The Way They Live Now by Michael Lewis | The New York Review of Books
A good review by Michael Lewis of John Lanchester’s ‘Capital’. I’ve realised there’s, often something extra enjoyable in reviews of very British books by Americans, and vice versa.
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Let’s Call it Failure (London Review of Books)
John Lanchester on good, if depressing, form on the state of the UK economy and “austerity”.
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Instagram as an island economy (11 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected)
The same with Matt Webb’s thoughts on Lanchester’s piece. Belatedly adding it to my link memory.
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John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB 5 April 2012
Just realised I never Pinboarded this at the time, only wrote about it. For completion’s sake.
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LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay
On the future of the newspaper industry. Many good nuggets, including: “New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the bog-standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year.”
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Mr Brown Goes to the Palace « London Review Blog
John Lanchester’s started posting daily about the general election (if you click his name, that page also has an RSS feed just for him).
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LRB · John Lanchester · The Great British Economy Disaster
Another must-read. “This is a direct transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to the banks, and the only difference between it and an actual, physical licence to print money is that the banks don’t have a piece of paper with the words ‘Official Licence to Print Money’ written across the top.”
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LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished
Very long but very worth reading, on the collapse of the banks. One day I hope there’s a book called “John Lanchester Explains Everything”.