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Why do we tolerate poverty?
It’s bad reasoning, not human nature, that blinds us to the predicament of the poor
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Editorial: World thinkers
It’s striking that those who have come top of Prospect’s poll to pick the World Thinker of 2014 have devoted their lives to questions of development. We... -
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A desire to dismantle the novel has snaked its way through contemporary fiction. Plot, character, exposition and so on have, for writers such as Sheila... -
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