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‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality

Exclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all The trouble with economists, Isabella Weber believes, is they do not behave like dentists.

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