Jeanette Winterson

15th February 2008 with 6 Comments

The Times Online has a nice piece imagining a reading list for capitalists:
Right now, I would like to put every City trader and master-of-the universe banker into an offshore penal colony where they would have to make their own clothes out of copies of The Wall Street Journal, cook a ration of rice in a [...]

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