Author: Alastair Bowman
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Steinbeck made me an economist and economics made me a writer
I was a child in the 1980s and believed in a left-right trade-off between social justice and economic efficiency. At the end of university, where I had dropped Economics for a Politics degree I found it so uninspiring, I went on holiday and read Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The Joads were lured to California…