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...work, forced to use food banks. Nor, is it rhetorical to describe as a national disgrace that each night over 4,000 people are forced to sleep in the streets. But, beyond this what does it say about the kind of society we live in that we are growing accustomed to endemic poverty? The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states in Article One that “All human beings...

...works and avoid systematic errors in their forecasting because they would otherwise lose out in competitive markets to people with more rational expectations. In a new book, Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy, Jens Beckert and I argue that all three of these assumptions are highly questionable. We argue that dynamic capitalist...