After posting at length about my choice of future books, I thought I'd cover what I'm currently reading, despite it not exactly relating to the course/project.
I'm currently reading two books. 'Tales of the Script' a book of compiled from interviews with 50 "hollywood" screenwriters discussing their role in the industry, methods and rise to success, an intesting insight.
The other, 'Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay' by John Lanchester, is a humorous and emotional non-fiction novel who's protaganist is the Global Economy. Describing each step of the recent financial crisis in a way both entertaining and informative as well as comprehensible (although I will have to read it twice), as well as attacking the "madness" of modern Capitalism, it's a really interesting insight into economics. I'll include a section from page 15, relevant due to the current threat of a conservative-lead government:
"With the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism began a victory party that ran for almost two decades. Capitalism is not inherintly fair: it does not, in and of itself, distribute the rewards of economic growth equitably. Instead, it runs on the bases of winner takes all and to them that hath shall be given. For several decades after the second world war the western liberal democracies devoted themselves to the question of how to harness capitalism's potential for economic growth to the political imperative to provide better lives for ordinary people. The jet engine of capitalism was harnessed to the ox cart of social justice... [The] effect was that the western liberal democracies became the most admirable societies that the world has ever seen... Then the Wall came down, and to various extents the governments of the west began to abandon the social-justice aspect of the general post-war project. The jet engine was unhooked from the ox cart and allowed to roar off at its own speed. The result was an unprecedented boom, which had two big things wrong with it; it wasn't fair, and it wasn't sustainable."
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