Frederick Barr

LATEST ARTICLES BY Frederick Barr

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  Black Friday’s heart of darkness

  November 29, 2011 By Frederick Barr

  Everyone should have paid attention recently as people massed in public, in numbers greater than ever. Of course, the story had elements of tragedy and violence as well.

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• Opinion

  

  “Pan Am”: Cold War nostalgia that has yet to take off

  November 14, 2011 By Frederick Barr

  It's obvious that Pan Am, ABC TV's ambitious new series, is a major network's bid to seize the audience that has made Mad Men a cable television sensation.

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• Opinion

  

  Confronting the walking dead: John Quiggin’s “Zombie Economics”

  November 8, 2011 By Frederick Barr

  The zombie metaphor is both witty and apt when discussing how ideas about society and finance that have alarmingly failed refuse to stay dead and buried.

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