To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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We can't afford to subsidise the fat cats
Andrew Sayer's new book show how the rich have feathered their own nests, writes John Moore
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Why We Can't Afford The Rich. Andrew Sayer (Policy Press, £15.99)
In Why We Can't Afford the Rich, Andrew Sayer shows how financial markets came to overshadow the traditional industrial economy, exacerbating the depth of the economic crisis and increasing the share of the rich in national wealth in the process.
Sayer defines the rich as "income extractors" rather than earners, as they get most of their revenue from their control of assets such as land, money, buildings and equipment which enable them to draw off value that others produce.
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