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Creative Accounting

David Runciman

  • Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen

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David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.

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