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How Finance Gutted Manufacturing
Suzanne Berger — with responses from:
DEAN BAKER, JOEL ROGERS AND DAN LURIA, DAN BREZNITZ, SUSAN N. HOUSEMAN, MIKE ROSE, NICHOLA LOWE, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, GARY HERRIGEL, CATHERINE TUMBER, AND DAVID WEIL. SUZANNE BERGER REPLIES.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Satisfaction of the Instincts
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My Mother Reading in the Land of the Dead
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