A Christmas Carol with James Butler
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A Christmas Carol with James Butler

To unwrap the politics of A Christmas Carol, Eleanor Penny is joined by James Butler, co-founder of Novara Media and a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.

Together they discuss the hungry 1840s, deflationary economics, Scrooge’s miserly capitalism and why Charles Dickens’ conversion story is our most enduring ghost of Christmas past.

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