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We have looked in detail at the way in which handing control over to market forces has delivered overwhelming power into a few hands and thereby created less efficient economies, less healthy and integrated societies, lower ethical standards of behaviour and a dangerously imperfect understanding of how economies, societies and the world as a whole actually work.
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Gould, B. (2013). The Anglo-American Model. In: Myths, Politicians and Money. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358639_18
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