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The upper class has always been a rich target for comedy. But, as William Gerhardie’s recently reissued 1920s novels Futility and The Polyglots show, even humor aimed at aristocrats can sting those on the lower rungs.
Nina Munk's The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty reports on the Millennium Villages Project—and, in some ways, it’s the story of how Western economists fail to understand camels.
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