<b>Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.</b>
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Spare, classical in form, cool and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Dan Davies
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Profile Books Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781788169547
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