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In a reevaluation of the meaning of politics, it is argued that while economics contains theory & language that can facilitate an understanding of the public interest, it does not provide an escape from political disagreement, whether based on inevitable differences of interest or belief, or on self-serving efforts to advance one cause at the expense of another. As a language of discourse, economics is shown to be compatible with a broader conception of human nature than is sometimes claimed by its practitioners or acknowledged by its critics. 53 References. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on a book by Brian Lee Crowley, The Self, the Individual and the Community: Liberalism in the Political Thought of F. A. Hayek and Sidney and Beatrice Webb (New York: Oxford U Press, 1987 [see listing in IRPS No. 54]). This book illuminates similarities between Hayek & the Webbs in their depoliticized economistic view of the nature of social thought. It is suggested that Crowley would better understand Hayek's (anti)politics if he considered the historical context from which it emerged. The form of Hayek's political anthropology (the individualist ethos of self-seeking enterprise) is attributed to the pluralistic nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in which he was raised. Crowley's work is considered in line with the current interest of the Aristotelian conception of politics, centered on the idea of active, participatory citizenship. This revival emerges in opposition to the antipolitics of classical liberalism & socialism, & their failure to satisfactorily address the issue of the relationship of man, state, & society. L. Taub

Ansel Wong is the quiet man of British black politics, rarely in the limelight and never seeking political office. And yet his 'career' here – from Black Power firebrand to managing a multimillion budget as head of the Greater London Council's Ethnic Minority Unit in the 1980s – spells out some of the most important developments in black educational and cultural projects. In this interview, he discusses his identification with Pan-Africanism, his involvement in student politics, his role in the establishment of youth projects and supplementary schools in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his involvement in black radical politics in London in the same period, all of which took place against the background of revolutionary ferment in the Third World and the world of ideas, and were not without their own internal class and ethnic conflicts.

A review essay covering books by: 1) Merike Blofield, The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America (2011); 2) America Evelyn Huber and John D. Stephens, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin (2012); 3) Stephen B. Kaplan, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America (2013).