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Bread and Circus

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Author
Airea D Matthews
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing conversation about American inequality. As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed by 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. Now, she presents a direct challenge to Smith’s theory of the invisible hand, which claims self-interest is the key to optimal economic outcomes. By juxtaposing redacted texts by Smith and the French Marxist Guy Debord with autobiographical prose and poems, Bread and Circus personally offers how self-interest fails when it reduces people to commodity and spectacle.
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      SKU
      9781668011454
      Published At
      30.05.2023
      Dimensions
      152 x 229 x 8mm
      Pages
      112
      EAN
      9781668011454
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      Created At (custom)
      30.05.2023
      ISBN
      9781668011454

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